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Le Morte Darthur: V. 2 Free FREE LE MORTE DARTHUR: V. 2 PDF Sir Thomas Malory,Janet Cowen,John Lawlor | 592 pages | 01 Aug 1993 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780140430448 | English | London, United Kingdom Le Morte d'Arthur: Book V (vol 2) Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. Janet Cowen Editor. John Lawlor Introduction. An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail; all the ele An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail; all the elements are there woven into a wonderful completeness by the magic of his prose style. The result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the most moving. As the story advances towards the inevitable tragedy of Arthur's death the effect is cumulative, rising with an impending sense of doom and tragedy towards its shattering finale. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published January 30th by Penguin Classics first published Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 More Details Edition Language. Le Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 d'Arthur Volumes 2. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. Be the first to ask a question about Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. Apr 11, Scott rated it it was amazing Shelves: myth-legend. True love. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Taken as a whole, an amazing piece of literature, and perhaps the definitive version of the Arthurian story. While Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 is a continuous plot to the entire saga although not always in chronological orderit's broken up into various nearly stand-alone sections, each with its own heroes and storylines. Volume 2 has most of the better episodes, including the great character-driven stories like the Tristram saga and Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 story of Launcelot and Guinevere, and the eerie, metaphorical story of the Grail Quest. My favorite story was the tale of Sir Tristram. I particularly enjoyed the rivalry of Tristram and Palomides, who is probably my favorite character in the entire book, and a welcome surprise since I wasn't familiar with him in advance. What I enjoyed most about Le Morte d'Arthur are its complex and realistic characters while the heroes may have superhuman strength and endurance, they exhibit realistic personality flaws and believable motivations. I also liked the way the individual tales were linked together into a cohesive unit, with events and decisions causing repercussions that ripple along throughout the rest of the saga. The female characters aren't always very well-written, which is perhaps not surprising given the age and theme of the work, with most of them falling into the general categories of damsel in distress, conniving temptress, mischievous sorceress, sacred virgin, or unfaithful wife. But there are some good surprises here, including stories in which the damsel rescues the knight, rather than the other way around, and there are a few female characters with some depth, such as Maledisant. The other thing that bothered me were the spoilers and anticlimaxes--the places in which Malory gives away the ending or an important part of it midway through the story, or else at the end of an episode casually mentions that our hero later gets slain by so-and-so. These sorts of things would never fly today, but of course Malory was writing at a different time, for a different sort of audience one that would likely already be familiar with these stories, having heard other versions of them. This review covers the text from the beginning of the Tristram story. Sep 06, Marie rated it it was ok. I had to sort of force my way through it, as an essential part of my Arthurian reading. Still, I find that it wasn't worthwhile, Le Morte dArthur: v. 2. I had thought it would give me insight into modern Arthurian stuff, which seemed to have little to nothing to do with most of the lays I had read. Someone said that most things are based on Le Morte, so I thought I'd check it out. I think most things are based on things based on Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 Morte. It's just so tediously written. I wonder it did well on first publication. Sure, the really good Arthurian stuff was all in French, but c'mon, Chaucer did some translating back in his day - was there no one more skilled than this punter in the 15th C to bring the French Arthurian romances back home to England? I mean He summarizes. He's formulaic. It's prose so you wonder why he can't describe things a little more Le Morte dArthur: v. 2. He even has a few "Except that wasn't Gareth, it was Gawain, my bad" lines. It's like listening to someone badly re-tell a story. View 1 comment. Dec 26, russell barnes rated it it was ok Shelves: medieval-classics. This is the way that Arthur ends, not Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 a bang but a whimper. Two volumes, almost pages of relentless jousts, avoiding horses, mighty buffets that's knights groaning under sword strokes rather than tables groaning under the weight of Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 eggs and pork piesladies dying for love, dwarves, more tournaments, spears breaking, the quest for the Holy Grail, page upon page of listing Knight's names, further tournaments and knightly adventures featuring jousts, Arthur and Mordred meet Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 pos This is the way that Arthur ends, not with a bang but a whimper. Two volumes, almost pages of relentless jousts, avoiding horses, mighty buffets that's knights groaning under sword strokes rather than tables groaning under the weight of scotch eggs and pork piesladies dying for love, dwarves, more tournaments, spears breaking, the quest for the Holy Grail, page upon page of listing Knight's names, further tournaments and knightly adventures Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 jousts, Arthur and Mordred meet in possibly the smallest chapter of the two volumes, and promptly die within a couple of paragraphs. Underwhelming is not the word. There are some fascinating textural and historical devices through the whole work: It was one of the first books published by Caxton, and despite some debate who actually wrote it, it is accepted the Malory that did write it was stuck in the Tower of London during the Wars of the Roses. Consequently there is huge amount of betrayal and conflict between various Knights of the Round Table. Alliances are made and broken within a blink of an eye, often over trivial slights, and people are wounded or die as a result, which must have been a pretty accurate representation of life at the time of the Lancastrian and Yorkist struggle. Also, given the weight of popular culture behind the legend of Arthur, the Grail takes a relatively small section of the whole, and some of the Knights we know and love turn out to be darker and more brutal than the rosy presentations we have know, particularly Gawain, whereas Lancelot comes off much better, which is odd as it's quite clear he's been copping off with Guinevere. I have to say this is one of those books I've wanted to read for years and years. I've searched the second hand book shops the length and breadth of Blighty trying to find a matching pair in eager anticipation of something as beautiful and gripping as Gawain and the Green Knightonly to get massive list of Knights' names, far too much avoiding of horses and a lingering sense I've sorted of wasted all those years. Feb 12, Jesse rated it liked it Shelves: classics. I found, when I started reading it, that this volume was more difficult than the first. I awarded it to the fact that the first third of the book is a continuation of a the story about Tristram. I didn't really know much about this knight before reading "Le Morte", but I still don't find his story all that intriguing. I feel like it was, perhaps, just another rendition of the love triangle between Lancealot, Artur and Gwen. Only this time we have zero qualms about rooting for the adulterer. Once I found, when I started reading it, that this volume was more difficult than the first. I have previously Le Morte dArthur: v. 2 "The Once and Future King" and many of the stroies in that book at least the meaningful ones, for me showed up. Even so, it was still quite a drudge to get through everything. I want to learn more about the Arthurian legends, and this seemed like a good place to start.
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