书名：Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 2亚瑟王之死2本组套
作者：Thomas Malory
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：1970
语种：英文
ISBN：9780140430448 9780140430431
商品尺寸：12.7 x 3 x 19.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：1088（以实物为准）
★六百年经典！不可不看的奇幻“圣经”！

★位于《圣经》和莎士比亚的西方正典之后，改编成电影、电视剧、游戏无数
★诺贝尔文学奖得主石黑一雄《被掩埋的巨人》中传说的亚瑟王时代
★《哈利波特》、《冰与火之歌》、《魔戒》、《亚瑟王》、《游戏王》、《Fate》的灵感源泉
★亚瑟王、梅林、兰斯洛特、圆桌骑士、圣杯、石中剑均源自于此，奇幻读者的经典读物

凯尔特神话的集大成作——托马斯·马洛礼的Le Morte d'Arthur《亚瑟王之死》是首部完整讲述不列颠国王亚瑟及其圆桌骑士传奇故事的小说。
中古时期的不列颠群岛，列国纷争。传说中的魔鬼之子梅林藏身于英格兰，等待着能够拔出石中剑的全境之王--亚瑟。在梅林的辅佐下，亚瑟王结束混战，远征罗马，聚拢150位圆桌骑士开创盛世，在辉煌时代展开浩大的圣杯历险，而兰斯洛特和莫德莱德的双重背叛，将亚瑟王推至命运的深渊……《亚瑟王之死》的故事及传奇元素成为奇幻题材创作重要的灵感取材地。

精彩书评：
我对是非对错的判断、对高贵道义的情怀，以及所有为弱者对抗压迫的意图，都来自于《亚瑟王之死》。──约翰·斯坦贝克（诺贝尔文学奖、普利策文学奖）
Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties, and his great, forbidden love for the beautiful Queen Guenever. Culminating in an account of Arthur's final battle against the scheming, deceitful Mordred, this is the definitive re-telling of the Arthurian myth, weaving a story of adultery, treachery and ultimately - in its tragic finale - death. Edited and published by William Caxton in 1485, Malory's moving prose romance looks back to an idealised Medieval age of chivalry, drawing on French and English verse sources to create an epic masterpiece of passion, enchantment, war and betrayal.

托马斯·马洛礼（1416-1471），中世纪骑士，出生于优渥的英格兰士绅家庭。25岁受封骑士，29岁当选沃里克郡国会议员。之后几度陷入金雀花王朝的政治博弈以及玫瑰战争，经历多次牢狱颠沛后，专心撰写《亚瑟王之死》。1470年3月，在伦敦监狱完成手稿，隔年3月身故。

No one knows for sure who the author of Le Morte D'Arthur was, but the generally accepted theory is that of American scholar G.L. Kitteredge, who argued it was Sir Thomas Malory, born in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, and who spent the greatest part of his last twenty years in prison. Another possibility is a Thomas Malory of Studley and Hutton in Yorkshire, or an author living north of Warwickshire. It is generally accepted that the author was a member of the gentry and a Lancastrain.

‘And if so be ye can descrive what ye bear, ye are worthy to bear the arms.’
‘As for that,’ said Sir Tristram, ‘I will answer you: this shield was given me, not desired, of Queen Morgan le Fay; and as for me, I can not descrive these arms, for it is no point of my charges and yet I trust to God to bear them with warship.’
‘Truly,’ said King Arthur, ‘ye ought not to bear none arms but if ye wist what ye bear; but I pray you tell me your name.’
‘To what intent?’ said Sir Tristram.
‘For I would wit,’ said Arthur.
‘Sir, ye shall not wit as at this time.’
‘Then shall ye and I do battle together,’ said King Arthur. ‘Why,’ said Sir Tristram, ‘will ye do battle with me but if I tell you my name? And that little needeth you and ye were a man of worship. for ye have seen me this day have had great travail, and therefore ye are a villainous knight to ask battle of me, considering my great travail; howbeit I will not fail you, and have ye no doubt that I fear not you, though ye think ye have me at a great advantage yet shall I right well endure you.’
And therewirhal King Arthur dressed his shield and his spear, and Sir Tristram against him, and they came so eagerly together. And there King Arthur brake his spear all to pieces upon Sir Tristram’s shield. But Sir Tristram hit Arthur again, that horse and man fell to the earth. And there was King Arthur wounded on the left side, a great wound and a perilous.
Then when Sir Uwain saw his lord Arthur lie on the ground sore wounded, he was passing heavy. And then he dressed his shield and his spear, and cried aloud unto Sir Trisrram and said, ‘Knight, defend thee!’
So they came together as thunder, and Sir Uwain bruised his spear all to pieces upon SLY Tristram’s shield, and Sir Trisrram smote him harder and sorer, with such a might that he bare him clean out of his saddle to the earth.