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Read Malory properly

The whole of Le Morte d'Arthur: 21 books, 502 chapters, about 336,000 words. Roughly a month at a chapter or two a day.

The reader keeps your place by chapter, glosses the hard words as you meet them, and marks the passages the research ledger validates. Book X (Tristram) is 88 chapters and is where most readers stop — it is fine to skip it and come back.

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Malory Caxton's prefaceThe preface of William Caxton
Start with Caxton's preface. He explains, in 1485, exactly why he is printing this and what he expects a reader to get from it.
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Malory I.iFirst, How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again.
Book I. Uther and Igraine.
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Malory XIII.iHow at the vigil of the Feast of Pentecost entered into the hall before King Arthur a damosel, and desired Sir Launcelot for to come and dub a knight, and how he went with her.
Book XIII, if you want the Grail quest on its own.
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Malory XVIII.iOf the joy King Arthur and the queen had of the achievement of the Sangreal; and how Launcelot fell to his old love again.
Book XVIII, if you want the fall on its own.

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