The Once and Future King
By T.H. White
1958
First Published
3.84
Average Rating
832
Number of Pages
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.
Avg Rating
3.84
Number of Ratings
1,090
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
23%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
T.H. White
Author · 19 books
Born in Bombay to English parents, Terence Hanbury White was educated at Cambridge and taught for some time at Stowe before deciding to write full-time. White moved to Ireland in 1939 as a conscientious objector to WWII, and lived out his years there. White is best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.
