Le Morte D' Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative & enthralling version of the Arthurian legend Recounting Arthur's birth his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur his ill-fated marriage to Guenever the treachery of Morgan le Fay & the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table it magically weaves together adventure battle love & enchantment Le Morte D' Arthur looks back to an idealized Medieval world & is full of wistful elegiac regret for a vanished age of chivalry Edited & published by William Caxton in 1485 Malory's prose romance drew on French & English verse sources to give an epic unity to the Arthur myth & remains the most magnificent re-telling of the story in English