Sir Thomas Malory

Le Morte d'Arthur (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

IT befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the Duke of Tintagil. And so by means King Uther sent for this duke, charging him to bring his wife with him, for she was called a fair lady, and a passing wise, and her name was called Igraine.So when the duke and his wife were come unto the king, by the means of great lords they were accorded both. The king liked and loved this lady well, and he made them great cheer out of measure, and desired to have lain by her. But she was a passing good woman, and would not assent unto the king. And then she told the duke her husband, and said, I suppose that we were sent for that I should be dishonoured; wherefore, husband, I counsel you, that we depart from hence suddenly, that we may ride all night unto our own castle. And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing. All so soon as King Uther knew of their departing so suddenly, he was wonderly wroth. Then he called to him his privy council, and told them of the sudden departing of the duke and his wife.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sir Thomas Malory
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788892561038
• Artikelnr.: 44642915

Autorenporträt

Not much is known about Sir Thomas Malory, who was born in England in the early fifteenth century. He is believed to have been a knight and is known as the compiler and/or writer of Le Morte d'Arthur, which he completed around 1470.

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) was a book illustrator, caricaturist, poster-designer and novelist. He was closely associated with The Yellow Book, and illustrated The Rape of the Lock, The Lysistrata of Aristophanes and Oscar Wilde's Salome. Charles Robinson (1870- 37) was one of the most popular and prolific black-and-white artists of the Edwardian era. Brother of the artists Thomas and William Heath Robinson, he came to prominence when asked to illustrate Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.

Andrea Denny-Brown earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University with a concentration in Medieval Literature. She is an associate professor of English at the University of California Riverside.