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• The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances (8 volumes; Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1908-1916), ed. by H. Oskar Sommer
  • Volume I (Lestoire del Saint Graal): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Lestoire de Merlin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part III): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Les Aventures ou La Queste del Saint Graal; La Mort le Roi Arthur): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Supplement: Le Livre d'Artus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Index of Names and Places to Volumes I-VII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Tristan Legend: A Study in Sources (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1969), by Sigmund Eisner (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Arthour and Merlin (transcription and translation of the Oxford Bodelein Douce 236 MS, and link to transcription of Auchinleck MS), ed. by Eleanor Lawson (HTML with commentary at archive.org)
• Arthurian Chronicles, Represented by Wace and Layamon, by Wace and Layamon, ed. by Lucy Allen Paton, trans. by Eugene Mason
  • Part 1 (Introduction, and Roman de Brut): Gutenberg text
  • Part 2 (Layamon's Brut): Gutenberg text
• Cliges, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Cliges: A Romance, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by Laetitia Jane Gardiner (Gutenberg text)
• Eric et Enide, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur (London: Addey and Co., 1856), by Mary-Lafon, trans. by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Gustave Doré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Morte D'Arthur (middle English edition), by Thomas Malory (HTML at Michigan)
• Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table (modern English edition in 2 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by Thomas Malory, ed. by Alfred W. Pollard, contrib. by William Caxton
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
• Morien, ed. by Jessie L. Weston (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Roman de Brut, by Wace, trans. by Eugene Mason, contrib. by Lucy Allen Paton (Gutenberg text)
• The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (abridged by Pollard from Malory; New York: Macmillan, 1920), by Thomas Malory, ed. by Alfred W. Pollard, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sir Cleges; Sir Libeaus Desconus: Two Old English Metrical Romances Rendered Into Prose (London: D. Nutt, 1902), trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Stories of King Arthur (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), by A. L. Haydon, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. by Valerie Krishna (HTML at Virginia)
• Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Copied and Edited From the Marquis of Bath's MS. (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1864), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (Gutenberg text)
• The Awntyrs off Arthur, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML with notes at Rochester)
• King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. by Larry Dean Benson and Edward E. Fisher (HTML at Rochester)
• La Storia di Merlino (in Italian; Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1898), by Paolino Pieri, ed. by Ireneo Sanesi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lancelot of the Laik, ed. by Alan Lupack (HTML with commentary at Rochester)
• Popular Romances of the Middle Ages (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871), by George W. Cox and Eustace Hinton Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose Merlin, ed. by John Conlee (HTML at Rochester)
• The Quest of Merlin, by Richard Hovey (HTML at Rochester)
• Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle, trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Song of Arthur, by S. Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org.uk)
• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML with commentary at Rochester)
• Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort
  • HTML at mcllibrary.org
  • PDF at In Parentheses
• The High History of the Holy Graal, trans. by Sebastian Evans (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Lancelot, or, The Knight of the Cart, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Merlin: or The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance (1906 edition), ed. by Henry B. Wheatley (HTML at Michigan)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon (HTML at Michigan)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (with modern prose translation), ed. by Karen Arthur and Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by William Allan Neilson (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by Jessie L. Weston (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML at Rochester)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Once and Future King (c1958), by T. H. White (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Excalibur: An Arthurian Drama, by Ralph Adams Cram (HTML at Rochester)
• The Famous Historie of Chinon of England, by Christopher Middleton; To Which is Added The Assertion of King Arthure, Translated by Richard Robinson from Leland's Assertio Inclytissimi Arturii, Together with the Latin Original (EETS original series #165; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, 1925), by Christopher Middleton and John Leland, ed. by William Edward Mead, trans. by Richard Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson (Gutenberg text)
• King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys and Girls, by Henry Gilbert, illust. by Walter Crane
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • illustrated HTML at Celtic Twilight
• The Lady of Shalott (two versions, with Pre-Raphaelite paintings and commentary), by Alfred Lord Tennyson (illustrated HTML at pathguy.com)
• Prince Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Ten Books, by Richard Blackmore (HTML at Rochester)
• The Story of King Arthur and his Knights, by Howard Pyle (illustrated HTML at Celtic Twilight)
• The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Howard Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1907), by Howard Pyle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Dover reprint: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, by Howard Pyle
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1910), by Howard Pyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Birth of Merlin: or, The Childe Hath Found His Father, by William Rowley (HTML at Rochester)
• The Boy's King Arthur (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1919), by Thomas Malory, ed. by Sidney Lanier, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (vol. 16 of The Writings of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Brothers, c1899), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (New York: Harper and Bros., c1889), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (from the authorized edition of the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., c1917), by Mark Twain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fairy of the Lake, by John Thelwall (HTML at Rochester)
• King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Mordred: A Tragedy, by Henry John Newbolt (HTML at Rochester)
• The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Clemence Housman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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