T.H. White
Paperback | Pages: 823 pages Rating: 4.04 | 3563 Users | 213 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-5) |
| Author | : | T.H. White |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 823 pages |
| Published | : | 1996 by Voyager (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mythology. Arthurian |
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T.H. White’s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. The Once and Future King, contains all five books about the early life of King Arthur:The Sword in the Stone
The Witch in the Wood
The Ill-Made Knight
The Candle in the Wind
The Book of Merlyn
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.
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| Original Title: | The Once and Future King |
| ISBN: | 0006483011 (ISBN13: 9780006483014) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Once and Future King #1-5 |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 3563 Users | 213 ReviewsRate About Books The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-5)
There are some books which, when you flip the final page, overwhelm you with emotion. You wish for more, for the universe you've been immersed in to continue and take you along with it. For just one more page of adventure.This was not one of those books.White took one of the most classic, long lived stories and made it boring. This should have been a gripping epic of romance, drama, and sword-fighting! It had knights! Treachery! Magic! Forbidden love! What more could you ask for in story-fodder?This must be the hardest book to rate ever.I almost wish I had read it as part of a course or with a book club because it has so much to talk about in it.Firstly, the Sword in the Stone was definitely my favourite part. The descriptions are vivid. The magic fun and the descriptions of castle life are engrossing. Merlyn is a fabulously grumpy old wizard and the Wart is exceedingly likable. Then the story takes a darker turn. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. The incident with the Orcadians and
I feel like it would be quite unfair to judge all five books as a whole, even if they are bound this way, but "What, What?""See, some things turn out this way, see? Even classics, see?" What, What?I honestly went through many changes while reading this work, but that may be entirely because I keep seeing how it has changed the world, our perceptions, and especially it's influence on so many of the cultural set pieces we enjoy across a wide, wide canvas.I was thrown, willy-nilly, into a purely
I read The Sword in the Stone and half the next book but really wasn't enjoying the outdated moralising. Bits of the first book were mildly fun and magical, and maybe if I'd read it as a kid I would've enjoyed it, but I'm way too old for that now. So on the unfinished pile it goes.
I was listening to the naxos complete audiobook on audible, while reading along, which led to confusion, then illumination, which Id like to share with you.First of all, in case you dont know, The Once and Future King is made up of four books, three of which had been previously published.The Sword in the Stone (1938)The Queen of Air and Darkness (published in a longer form in 1939 as The Witch in the Wood)The Ill-Made Knight (1940)The Candle in the Wind (1958 as part of The Once and Future King)
The Sword in the Stone 3One of my bookish pet peeves is when the meaning of the title comes clear too late in the book. In this one? 15 pages before the end (out of 232). Of course I saw the movie, so I knew where it was going, but still.I was very surprised to see that some of the more whimsical aspects of the movie were originally present in the book.The Witch in the Wood 2.25So... Not that much Arthur, eh?I switched to an audio version because I'm not that into it. I don't know if that was a
This is very much a novel made up of parts. Each of the installments here is it's own story and each has it's own strengths and foibles. If I am honest, it has taken me the better part of a month to finish this, which is nearly unheard of for me irrespective of a novels length, but don't judge it harshly on that basis. It is a very different kind of writing to that which I am prone to reading and I found it far slower and contemplative, even in the midst of warfare, blood and death. But I have
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