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The death of King Arthur : Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur  Cover Image Book Book

The death of King Arthur : Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur / a retelling by Peter Ackroyd.

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- (Author). Malory, Thomas, Sir, Morte d'Arthur. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780670023073 (hc) :
  • Physical Description: xv, 316 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st American ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2011.

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General Note:
"Sir Thomas Malory"--Cover.
Subject: Arthur, King > Fiction.
Britons > Fiction.
Knights and knighthood > Great Britain > Fiction.
Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Arthurian romances.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, critic, and biographer.


Sir Thomas Malory was a knight and estate owner in the mid 15th century, who spent many years in prison for political crimes as well as robbery. He wrote Le Morte d’Arthur, the first great English prose epic, while imprisoned in Nwgate. The epic was published in 1485 by William Caxton, the first English printer. Malory is believed to have died in 1471.


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