King Arthur and His Noble Knights: Stories From Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'arthur (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from King Arthur and His Noble Knights: Stories From Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'arthur There is no more delightful book of its Kll'ld in the English language than Malory's M orte Darthm', and there are few that in certain periods at least have had more numerous or more illustrious readers. It was written at a time when our language was greatly un settled, and it undoubtedly exercised much influence in settling it. It furnished an excellent specimen and a conspicuous standard of English prose. At an epoch when the age of chivalry was swiftly passing away, it caught and preserved its fading colors. It reduced the old cumbrous and endless Romances to convenient and readable dimensions, and provided a charming sum mary of them both for its own age and all ages to come. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.