![]() Uther Pendragon, king of Britons, and defender of Britain against the Saxons has died. He drew from many other medieval sources, but mainly Malory, particularly so in the last section of the book. Green attempted to tell a cohesive story with beginning, middle, and end. Thinking that Malory's work was more of a loose collection of separate stories. Green set out to weave together the many legends surrounding King Arthur into a single narrative. In 2008, it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series with an introduction by David Almond (the award-winning author of Clay, Skellig, Kit's Wilderness, and The Fire-Eaters), and the original illustrations by Lotte Reiniger. ![]() It was first published by Puffin Books in 1953 and has since been reprinted many times. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a retelling of the Arthurian legends, principally Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, by Roger Lancelyn Green. ![]()
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