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{{quote|''O me, that such a name as Guinevere's,''
''Which our high Lancelot hath so lifted up,''
''And been thereby uplifted, should through me,''
''My violence, and my villainy, come to shame.''|Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "[[Idylls of the King]]"}}
A retelling of chapters 3-8 in book 18 of Malory's ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur
Every chapter has a direct quotation from Malory at its beginning, and, as a whole, the novel sticks to Malory's version in every detail, including the names of minor knights and ladies and the exact chronology of events (though not the religious position - e.g. in Karr's novel the hermits are crazy old men, very much unlike the Malorian majestic and omniscient interpreters of dreams).
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Malory's version of the story is 6 chapters; Karr's is 33, plus an epilogue. Malory has Guinevere saved by a ''deus ex machina'' courtesy of the Lady of the Lake; Karr shows Kay and Mordred having to go to a lot of trouble to make the ''deus ex machina'' possible.
* [[Asleep for Days]]: In the final chapter, Kay is wounded in pursuit of the murderer; when he regains consciousness, almost the first thing he says is that they have only two days to get the evidence back to London -- to which Mordred replies that actually they only have one day, because he's been unconscious for nearly twenty-four hours.
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