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King Arthur

The Once and Future King · Arthur Pendragon

coreattestedLegendary; sub-Roman Britain, 5th–6th c. CEArthurian legend

The once and future king: a boy who drew a sword from a stone and became the high king who united Britain, raised the Round Table, and built for one generation an order of justice out of an age of blood. Undone by the flaw at his own beginning — a son begotten in ignorance who returns as his doom — he falls at Camlann and is borne to the isle of Avalon, not dead, the legend insists, but waiting.

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Illustrated storyThe Matter of BritainA boy pulls a sword from a stone and becomes the king who builds, for one shining generation, an order of justice out of an age of blood. But the flaw is set at the beginning — a son begotten in ignorance, a love that lands in the wrong heart — and the Round Table that quests for the Grail is undone by the very virtues that raised it. The rise and fall of Camelot, and the king who is not dead but waiting.Begin reading →