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Word: astolat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fought and loved nobly but then fell; Galahad who rode away in righteousness-the last was her masterpiece. Lancelot finished his days in a monastery, more bluntly honest than ever and utterly perplexed by the last tra-edy his honesty precipitated, the suicide of the "lily maid" of Astolat, the second Elaine, whose proposal, made in tenderest neurotic innocence, so astonishingly echoed her unhappy namesake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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