Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory · 1485

The rise and ruin of King Arthur's Round Table — Lancelot's love, the Grail quest, and the last battle in the west.

Books that mention Le Morte d'Arthur (6)

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: “From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures”
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “Le Morte D'Arthur.”
• Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Tirant essay: 'definitive form in 1470 in Thomas Malory's romance'”
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: “He reads Le Morte d’Arthur, and because it is the new edition they crowd around him, looking over his shoulder at the title page. ‘Here beginneth the first book of the most noble and worthy prince King Arthur sometime King of Great Britain…’”
• The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge: “'What! Don't you know the Morte d'Arthur! I thought every one did! Don't”
• Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn: “So I related to them the story of Sir Bors, which is in the sixteenth book of Sir Thomas Mallory's "Morte d'Arthur,"”