Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, printed by William Caxton in 1485, is the most complete and influential Arthurian narrative in English. This first volume covers the early history of King Arthur — from his mysterious birth and Merlin’s guidance to the establishment of the Round Table and the initial great adventures of Arthur’s knights. Malory drew on a vast range of French and English sources to create a unified prose epic.
Le Morte d’Arthur defined the Arthurian legend for the English-speaking world and remained the primary source for all subsequent retellings, from Tennyson to T. H. White. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and enter Camelot.