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La Morte D'Arthur: The History of King Arthur | Sir Thomas Malory

Chat, I think I need more King Arthur books. 😂

Yes, I do know I need Oathbound.

Ruthiella I see the Mary Stewart books! I need to re-read the first three and then finish off the series. 2d

shanaqui @Clare-Dragonfly Am I being called in to give recommendations, ahaha? Without going into the scholarly/niche ones...

- Sarah Zettel's Camelot books
- Phyllis Ann Karr's Idylls of the Queen
- Cherith Baldry's Exiled from Camelot
- Patricia Terry & Samuel N. Rosenberg's Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles
- Jo Walton's Sulien books (kind of)
- Bernard Cornwell's The Winter King trilogy

And probably more that aren't popping into mind... 2d

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BookmarkTavern @shanaqui Please go into the scholarly niche ones! I love the Arthurian legends and would be ecstatic to grow my collection. 💖💖 Thank you for the recommendations! (edited) 2d

shanaqui @BookmarkTavern Well, the most obvious ones are The Mabinogion, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (I like Simon Armitage's translation), Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Chretien de Troyes' stuff, Robert de Boron's Grail Cycle, the Vulgate Cycle (but this tends to be spendy to get your hands on)...

More niche is Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône, which is good for Gawain lovers. 2d

shanaqui There's more I can't think of right now, I can probably dig out my dissertation's bibliography sometime. 😁 2d

BookmarkTavern @shanaqui Awesome suggestions! Thank you so much! Also, Arthurian dissertation? 👀👀👀 What was your dissertation on? (edited) 1d

shanaqui @BookmarkTavern Portrayals of Sir Cei from the Mabinogion into modern Arthuriana (hence some of my Kay-centric titles above like Idylls of the Queen and Exiled from Camelot!). 😁

Oh, and a fun one I remembered: Le Roman de Silence, 'cause it includes Merlin. There's a modern retelling, The Story of Silence, by Alex Myers -- I remember liking it. 1d

BookmarkTavern @shanaqui That sounds absolutely fascinating! I read The Story of Silence and really enjoyed it! 1d

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JessClark78

The Sword in the Stone | T. H. White

Found twenty-one words in The Sword in the Stone.

#HauntedShelf #WordFinder

+316 points #BlackCatCrew

BookwormAHN, PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🙌🙌 2w

BookwormAHN Yay 💜🐈‍⬛💜 2w

Lin3han 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛RISE UP!! 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ 2w

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JessClark78

The Sword in the Stone | T. H. White

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‘...and it is said that whoever can pull the magic sword out of the stone will be king of all England. But the last person any one thinks of is the Wart...‘

Book 1/The Once and Future King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#SPNBookBingo2025 #Angels
#Witchathon #AfterDarkBingo #ErasGhostBingo
#OneSnackToRuleThemAll #TeamPumpkinSpice
#PumpkabooHunt (Md) #SeriesLove2025 #Read2025 #HauntedShelf #TBR
9 hrs

+221 points #BlackCatCrew

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TEArificbooks Great job! 🧙 2w

Bookwormjillk 🎃🎃🎃 2w

PuddleJumper 🧡🖤🧡 2w

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DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2w

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OutsmartYourShelf 👏 Excellent. 2w

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JessClark78

The Sword in the Stone | T. H. White

First book of October.

#TBR #HauntedShelf #OneSnackToRuleThemAll
#Witchathon #SPNBookBingo2025 #Angels
#AfterDarkBingo #ErasGhostBingo #Read2025
#PumpkabooHunt

+1 point #BlackCatCrew

OutsmartYourShelf, BookwormAHN, PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🙌🙌 3w

OutsmartYourShelf Excellent start to the month 😀 3w

AnnCrystal Pretty cover art 🤩🎨📚💝. 3w

BookwormAHN Fantastic 💜🐈‍⬛💜 3w

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Blueberry

The Once and Future King | T. H. White

#King. #CharacterCharm

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🐎 🤴 3mo

Eggs On my Kindle TBR… 3mo

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LisaBam

Nevelen van Avalon: Het leven van koning Arthur door de ogen van de vrouwen in zijn leven | Marion Zimmer Bradley

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I was looking for something magic, fairy tail-y and harry potter-y. I got 1000+ pages of repetitive writing, intrigues and incestuous sex scenes.

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Graywacke

Le Morte Darthur, Or, The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table: Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism | Sir Thomas Malory

After lots of playing around with decisions and introductions of various books, it seems i‘ve committed myself to this book - my new morning read. Bring on Mallory.

dabbe I had to read this one after reading THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. I'm interested to read what you think about it. 🖤🐾🖤 4mo

Graywacke @dabbe So far it‘s a lot less boring 😆 Ok. i read White‘s book when I was 15 and not a book reader. And that … a lot of years ago. 4mo

dabbe @Graywacke No wonder some of my students in honors English would look at me like this when we were reading it: 😳🥱😴💤... 😂 4mo

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Graywacke @dabbe 😆 high school students have no tolerance for good literature, today or anytime during my lifetime (i might be exaggerating) 4mo

Bookwomble This is one of my top five books. Love Malory! 4mo

Graywacke @Bookwomble wow. That‘s great encouragement. On one hand I‘m ridiculously charmed. On the other, it‘s 5 minutes a page. It‘s a 60+ hour read… But it‘s my morning. I‘ll take it slow. (edited) 4mo

Bookwomble @Graywacke One of my earliest memories (5 years old, perhaps) is of playing Sir Kay in an infant school play, and King Arthur and his knights have been part of my fibre ever since 😊 And, yes, it's dense! The stories in Malory are repetitive in nature, although often with different moral emphases, such as the love triangles between Arthur-Guenevere-Lancelot and Mark-Isoud-Tristram. 4mo

Bookwomble My favourite story, I think, is one that Malory created rather than retold: Sir Gareth. It draws from established Arthurian themes, but put together differently. It has an undercurrent of ancient rites and magic, and psychological archetypes that I find really engaging. (Sorry, I'll stop gushing!) 4mo

Graywacke @Bookwomble you have a freehand to gush on any of my posts. Especially on Mallory. I really know nothing. And you were acting characters i didn‘t know existed in infant school! You‘re a source for me! You and Monty Python! ☺️ (edited) 4mo

Bookwomble Python will probably be a more reliable source! ? And "act" would probably be a generous term. Still, it definitely influenced my love of folklore and chivalrous tales ? 4mo

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Bookwomble

Stories from Le Morte D'arthur and the Mabinogion | Beatrice Clay

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The lovely Aubrey Beardsley frontispiece and title page of Beatrice Clay's retelling of Arthurian stories.
Although written for older children of the Edwardian era, and therefore removing certain "unsuitable" elements, it's not as moralistic as I'd feared it might be. Her afterword about knightly privilege being predicated on exploitation and enslavement of peasants is rather forward-thinking. 4.75 ?

Bookwomble The summary of one of my favourite Malory stories, Sir Gareth and Linette, the "Damosel Sauvage", has whetted my appetite for more Arthurian tales ?️ 4mo

CarolynM Beardsley ❤️ 4mo

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble I felt like that after reading Arthurian tales too. 4mo

tpixie Beautiful illustrations! 🖤🩶🤍 4mo

bibliothecarivs 😍 4mo

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Bookwomble

Stories from Le Morte D'arthur and the Mabinogion | Beatrice Clay

This 1934 edition of Beatrice Clay's Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion is an Edwardian retelling of the main Arthurian stories. I've had it for decades, so it's time is come to be read!
Written for children, the first 1901 edition left out Morgan le Fay, what with their relationship being "complicated", I suppose, but this reprint of the 1905 edition incorporated Morgan in suitably bowdlerised form.
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Bookwomble While it's a neat little edition, it's also a cheap reprint, without the original Dora Curtis illustrations, which the internet suggests are rather good, so that's a shame. 4mo

Leftcoastzen Still , very pretty! 4mo

Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen It has a nice Aubrey Beardsley frontispiece, which is some consolation 😊 4mo

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dabbe

The Once and Future King | T. H. White

#threelistthursday
#tlt
@dabbe

Even worse score than last week. Only 4 lists to go, thank God! 🤣
Favorites:
√THINGS FALL APART
√THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING (which should count as 4 books, IMHO).
√TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Read4life I had a whopping 4! 🤪 4mo

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