Thomas Malory

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January 01, 1410 in The United Kingdom

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March 14, 1471

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Sir Thomas Malory was a knight in the fifteenth century, who while imprisoned wrote the collection of tales we know as Le Morte D'Arthur, translating them from the French tales such as the Vulgate Cycle, and adapting them to be more British -- in effect, reclaiming King Arthur.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 9,450 ratings · 369 reviews · 56 distinct works

	Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur & the Legends of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, Keith Baines, Robert Graves (Introduction) 3.85 avg rating — 7,943 ratings — published 1485 — 267 editions	My rating:
	King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory, Eugene Vinaver (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 1,250 ratings — published 1860 — 51 editions	My rating:
	Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol 2 by Thomas Malory, Janet Cowen (Editor), John Lawlor (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 1485 — 52 editions	My rating:
	Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol 1 by Thomas Malory, Janet Cowen (Editor), John Lawlor (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 1485 — 109 editions	My rating:
	Complete Works by Thomas Malory, Eugene Vinaver (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1954 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tales of King Arthur 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1920 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, Alfred W. Pollard 3.82 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1950 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Caxton's Malory: A New Edition of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Mort D'Arthur" Based on the Pierpont Morgan Copy of William Caxton's Edition by Thomas Malory, James W. Spisak, William Matthews (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	King Arthur's Last Battle 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Storia di re Artù e dei suoi cavalieri 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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“The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
― Thomas Malory

tags: arthurian , chivalry , iseult

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“We shall now seek that which we shall not find”
― Thomas Malory

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“In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. ”
― Thomas Malory, Le Morte D' Arthur

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