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Le Morte d'Arthur

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Life of Mallory

Mallory transformed vast and unwieldy French sources into a concise, compressed, beautiful account of Arthur that's dominated the whole tradition ever since. Caxton was first person to print an Arthurian romance, and that was Mallory's. The French ones were printed later in the 16th century, but then they disappeared from sight. But as anyone knows, Arthurian material is back around now in a big way because of Mallory either as direct parent or indirect parent.

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