John Steinbeck - The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Pros: Clear version of influential, enjoyable tales. Insights into Steinbeck's thinking.
Cons: Steinbeck didn't finish it.

John Steinbeck won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, but he died in 1968 before he could realize his destiny. The author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men left unfinished his version of Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of the ...

Pros: A great story, interesting letters at the end
Cons: Unfinished

As a child, John Steinbeck hated the written word. In the introduction to The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, he writes, 'I remember that words - written or printed - were devils, and books, because they gave me pain, were my enemies.' These ...