The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Geoffrey told it for true, - not as a mere fiction. Here is his account of the way he happened to know it, and of his reason for publishing it as matter belonging to the real history of the Britons. This is a translation of part of his first chapter.

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Excerpt from The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Since the young readers of King Arthur - and their young readers after them - are of all persons in the world the very oracles who must one day answer this question; and since its curious face will be thrusting itself upon us from all manner of odd corners as we now go on to trace the rise and spread of the stories which Sir Thomas Malory used in making this beautiful old book: I wished to state it at the beginning, so that it might at once widen and intensify our thoughts as we look upon those changes in language, in life, in the general stature of man's spirit, whereby the great cycle of Arthurian romances which en. Chanted the grown men of all Europe during the middle ages finds itself arrived, in the nineteenth century, at the form of this present Boy's King Art/2217'.

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.