Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and
elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir
Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir
Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties, and
his great, forbidden love for the beautiful Queen Guenever. Culminating
in an account of Arthur's final battle against the scheming, deceitful
Mordred, this is the definitive re-telling of the Arthurian myth,
weaving a story of adultery, treachery and ultimately--in its tragic
finale--death. Edited and published by William Caxton in 1485, Malory's
moving prose romance looks back to an idealised Medieval age of
chivalry, drawing on French and English verse sources to create an epic
masterpiece of passion, enchantment, war and betrayal.
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