The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend

Peter Ackroyd

Penguin Books Limited, Jun 2, 2011 - Fiction - 336 pages

An immortal story of chivalry, treachery and death told anew for our times The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, the quest for the Holy Grail. Now retold by Peter Ackroyd with his signature clarity, charm and relish for a good story, 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.

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User Review  - jphamilton - LibraryThing

This was a fantastic retelling of these immense tales of old. I was captivated by the characters and their motivations, but, at the same time, there are so many contradictions in how these knights of ...

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User Review  - JBD1 - LibraryThing

A simplified retelling of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, which I think doesn't quite work all that well. While Ackroyd cuts quite a bit, the reworking doesn't really improve the narrative, and the ...

About the author

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London- The Biography and Thames- Sacred River as well as biographies of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, William Blake, Wilkie Collins, Thomas More and, most recently, Charlie Chaplin. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend; Penguin classics
• Author: Peter Ackroyd
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Books Limited, 2011
• ISBN: 0140455655, 9780140455656
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; History / Europe / Great Britain / General; History / Europe / Medieval