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Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory
1485
Introduction
Although Thomas Malory is thought to have written Le Morte d'Arthur in 1469, the first known publication was in 1485 by William Caxton. In this first edition, the work was divided into twenty-one books and 506 chapters. In 1934, another manuscript version was discovered in the Fellows Library of Winchester College. This manuscript is more fully developed in sections than the earlier one and is divided into ten parts, forming five larger sections. First published in 1947, this later version is the one more commonly used. It is available in various editions, one of which is the 2010 Signet Classic edition, titled Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table.
In composing Le Morte d'Arthur, Malory took various legends, mostly French in origin, and adapted them to English life, with an English perspective. Malory used courtly romances about Lancelot, dating from 1225 to 1230. These stories purport to be historical accounts of King Arthur and his knights and