Publisher's Synopsis
The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte dArthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them, he says. And, in our day, we are perhaps impatient with the words and the statelyrhythms of [Thomas] Malory. I wanted to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing and adding nothing.
