Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table: A Rendition in Modern Idiom by Keith Baines

Book Description

Secondhand. Very condition. Minor wear to book edges and corners. Foxing to top foredge and top tip of right foredge. Sunning to front and back endpages. Dust jacket has only minor creasing.

First edition with introduction by Robert Graves.

Le Morte D'Arthur, originally published by Caxton in 1485, was the first coherent history of Arthur from his curious birth to his dramatic death. Malory put together a web of history, saga and religious myth that had been spun in the Dark Ages to make a collection of tales that became a justly famous classic, but because of the elaborate and obscure nature of medieval rhetoric, it has been a book that everyone has heard of, but few have read.

Keith Barnes has written a translation into modern idiom that faithfully preserves the sequence of events and is complete and accurate, but is about one-half the length of the original.