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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 |
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 | : | Special 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.Rating Regarding Books The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-5)
Ratings: 4.04 From 3563 Users | 213 ReviewsArticle Regarding 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 is one of those novels/books that I should have liked, enjoyed. I finished the fourth book last night and sat there wondering why I hadn't been more enthralled by the epic Arthurian legend.The first novel featuring a young Wart and his mentor Merlyn was quite delightful, almost playful but the following novels were darker in the themes they addressed and didn't really adhere to the flow set by the first novel.I debated long and hard as to the rating.....was it worthy of a three at least?
DNFThis did not work for me at all.
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 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
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
This summer, my parents and I went on holiday to Cornwall and visited Tintagel Castle, which was supposedly the place where King Arthur was conceived. Its a popular tourist attraction, surrounded by gift shops where you can buy your kids a toy Excalibur or Merlins pointy hat. Since I love to buy books in the place where they are set or were written, I decided to buy a copy of T.H. Whites The Once and Future King (and a beautiful hardcover edition of Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca). I knew that it
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