书名：Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 1 亚瑟王之死1 
作者：Thomas Malory
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：1970
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780140430431
商品尺寸：13 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：528

★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）

Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and 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 and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D'Arthur looks back to an idealized Medieval world and is full of wistful, elegiac regret for a vanished age of chivalry. Edited and published by William Caxton in 1485, Malory's prose romance drew on French and English verse sources to give an epic unity to the Arthur myth, and remains the most magnificent re-telling of the story in English.

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.

It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the Duke of Tintagel. And so by means King Uther sent for this duke, charging him to bring his wife with him, for she was called a fair lady, and a passing wise, and her name was called Igraine.
So when the duke and his wife were comen unto the king, by the means of great lords they were accorded both. The king liked and loved this lady well, and he made them great cheer out of measure, and desired to have lain by her. But she was a passing good woman, and would not assent unto the king. And then she told the duke her husband, and said, ‘I suppose that we were sent for that I should be dishonoured, wherefore, husband, I counsel you that we depart from hence suddenly, that we may ride all night unto our own castle.’ And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were of their departing.
As soon as King Uther knew of their departing so suddenly, he was wonderly wroth. Then he called to him his privy council, and told them of the sudden departing of the duke and his wife. Then they advised the king to send for the duke and his wife by a great charge: ‘And if he will not come at your summons, then may do your best, then have ye cause to make mighty war upon him.’
So that was done, and the messengers had their answers, and that was this shortly, that neither he nor his wife would not come at him. Then was the king wonderly wroth. And then the king sent him plain word again, and bad him be ready and stuff him and garnish him, for within forty days he would fetch him out of the biggest castle that he hath.
When the duke had this warning, anon he went and furnished and garnished two strong castles of his, of the which the one hight Tintagel, and the other castle hight Terrabil. So his wife Dame Igraine he put in the Castle of Tintagel. and himself he put in the Castle of Terrabil, the which had many issues and posterns out. Then in all haste came Uther with a great host, and laid a siege about the Castleof Terrabil. And there he pitched many pavilions, and there was great war made on both parties and much people slain.