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This brisk retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur highlights the narrative drive, humor, and poignancy of Sir Thomas Malory’s original while updating his fifteenth-century English and selectively pruning over-elaborate passages that can try the patience of modern readers.

The result is an adaptation that readers can enjoy as a fresh approach to Malory's sprawling masterpiece. The book's most famous episodes--the sword in the stone, the cataclysmic final battle--are all here, while lesser-known key episodes stand forth with new brightness and clarity.

The text is accompanied by an up-to-date bibliography, including websites and video resources, and a descriptive index keyed--like the retelling itself--to the book and chapter divisions of William Caxton's first printed edition of 1485.

Joseph Glaser is Professor Emeritus of English, Western Kentucky University. Four of his previous works--Troilus and Criseyde in Modern Verse, The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse, Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—are also published by Hackett.