Thomas Malory is associated with Le Morte Darthur, the major fifteenth-century English prose compilation of Arthurian legend. The work gathers stories of Arthur's rise, the Round Table, Lancelot and Guinevere, the quest for the Holy Grail and the eventual collapse of the kingdom into one long narrative. Malory drew on earlier French and English traditions rather than inventing the material from scratch, and his version became a major source for later English-language Arthurian retellings. The prose can be direct and repetitive, with battles, oaths, kinship and chivalric obligations structuring much of the story. Le Morte Darthur is the essential entry for readers of medieval literature, Arthurian legend and chivalric romance. Modern readers will benefit from an edition with notes or lightly modernised spelling if Middle English prose is unfamiliar. Read more Less
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