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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory Other Sources
Author: John Steinbeck

The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte d'Arthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. "These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them. And, in our day, we are perhaps impatient with the words and the stately rhythms of ...  more »Malory. I wanted to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing and adding nothing."

Also included are the letters John Steinbeck wrote to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and to Chase Horton, the editor of this volume, about his work on King Arthur.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780374523787
ISBN-10: 0374523789
Publication Date: 4/1/1993
Pages: 364
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
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