The Once and Future King T. H. White

Name: The Once and Future King By T. H. White
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The Once and Future King by T. H. White

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SeriesVoyager Classics

Summary

This retelling of the Arthurian legend contains the volumes The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight and The Candle in the Wind. The tales tell of knights, jousts, battles and quests, of incest, infidelity and treachery.

The Once and Future King Summary

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

T.H. White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. The Once and Future King, contains all four books about the early life of King Arthur (The Sword in the Stone , The Witch in the Wood , The Ill-Made Knight and The Candle in the Wind). Exquisite comedy offsets the tradegy of Arthur's personal doom as White brings to life the major British epic of all time with brilliance, grandeur, warmth and charm

The Once and Future King Reviews

'Magnificent and tragic, and irrestible mixture of gaiety and pathos' The Sunday Times 'This ambitious work will long remain a memorial to an author who is at once civilized, learned, witty and humane' Times Literary Supplement

About T. H. White

Terence Hanbury White was born in 1906 in India. He found fame and success with The Sword in the Stone (1939), the brilliant imaginative retelling of King Arthur's early life. He continued the story in another three volumes (The Witch in the Wood 1940, The Ill-Made Knight 1941 and The Candle in the Wind 1940) After the author's death in 1964 another manuscript was discovered among his papers at the University of Texas. The Book of Merlyn written in 1941 completes the story of The Once and Future King.

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Sku

GOR001740018

ISBN 13

9780007117130

ISBN 10

0007117132

Title

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

Author

T. H. White

Series

Voyager Classics

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Year published

20010618

Number of pages

704

Prizes

N/A

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