Thomas Malory assembled the Arthurian legend into a single English prose narrative while he was in prison, and finished it around 1470. Le Morte d'Arthur pulled together French romance cycles, English alliterative poems and chronicle material into one continuous story running from Arthur's conception at Tintagel through the Round Table, the Grail quest, Lancelot and Guinevere, and the last battle in the west. He wrote in a plain, paratactic prose that moves by "and then" — a style that reads as artless until you notice how much of the emotional weight it carries by refusing to comment. The scene of Lancelot and Guinevere's final parting is four hundred words long and has never been bettered. William Caxton printed it in 1485, dividing it into twenty-one books and giving it the French title Malory had used for only the last section. A manuscript found at Winchester College in 1934 revealed Caxton's substantial editing. The author identifies himself as a knight-prisoner; the likeliest candidate, a Warwickshire knight repeatedly jailed on charges including robbery and assault, died in 1471.