Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" is a foundational prose compilation of traditional tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. It is one of the earliest and most influential works of English literature, shaping subsequent Arthurian adaptations and fantasy narratives.
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Sir Thomas Malory — Le Morte d'Arthur in First Fantasy Literature
Held in the First Fantasy Literature chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Apuleius — The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses) (170)
- The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (The Thousand and One Nights) (900)
- Anonymous (Arthur W. Ryder, trans.) — The Panchatantra (300)
- Sir Richard F. Burton — Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry (illus. Ernest Griset) (1870)
- Giovanni Boccaccio — The Decameron (1353)
- Ludovico Ariosto — Orlando Furioso (1532)
- Edmund Spenser — The Faerie Queene (1590)
- John Bunyan — The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
- Jonathan Swift — Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué — Undine (1811)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann — The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King (1816)
- George MacDonald — Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858)
- Lewis Carroll — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Lewis Carroll — Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
- George MacDonald — The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
- H. Rider Haggard — King Solomon's Mines (1885)
- H. Rider Haggard — She: A History of Adventure (1887)
- William Morris — The House of the Wolfings (1889)
- Arthur Machen — The Great God Pan (1894)
- Robert W. Chambers — The King in Yellow (1895)
- George MacDonald — Lilith: A Romance (1895)
- William Morris — The Well at the World's End (1896)
- L. Frank Baum — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
- E. Nesbit — Five Children and It (1902)
- J. M. Barrie — Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (1904)
- Lord Dunsany — The Gods of Pegāna (1905)
- E. Nesbit — The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
- E. Nesbit — The Story of the Amulet (1906)
- Lord Dunsany — The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908)
- Lord Dunsany — A Dreamer's Tales (1910)
- Lord Dunsany — The Book of Wonder (illus. Sidney H. Sime) (1912)
- James Branch Cabell — Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice (1919)
- E. R. Eddison — The Worm Ouroboros (1922)
- Lord Dunsany — The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
- Hope Mirrlees — Lud-in-the-Mist (1926)
- Clark Ashton Smith — Short Fiction (1929)
- George MacDonald — The Light Princess (1864)
- George MacDonald — The Golden Key (1867)
- Chrétien de Troyes — Four Arthurian Romances (1180)