The Once and Future King Author: T.H. White | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AEDDSQG | Format: EPUB
The Once and Future King Description
The world's greatest fantasy classic is "richly imagined and unfailingly eloquent and entertaining" (Booklist).
The Once and Future King is T.H. White's masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur, a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations.
- File Size: 1044 KB
- Print Length: 692 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0441003834
- Publisher: Ace (November 1, 2011)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AEDDSQG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,429 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Arthurian - #19
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Myths & Legends - #22
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Classics
Somehow, I missed this classic when growing up, so when my daughter was assigned this book for her eighth grade honors English course, I eagerly picked it up. I was well rewarded for my efforts.
The Sword in the Stone, the most famous of the quartet and the first, was for me the least interesting, perhaps because of its lack of driving conflict. It concerns the education of Arthur, called The Wart, in often hilarious scenes as Merlyn sets out to instruct him in the way of all creatures.
The Queen of Air and Darkness is a better story than the first, though it lacks the substance of the two later books. It tells of the history and childhood of the Orkney clan (Sirs Gawaine, Gaheris, Agravaine, Gareth, and Mordred) as well as preparing for the emotional battles about to begin.
The Ill-Made Knight is simply brilliant, giving Sir Lancelot a humanity I never thought possible, not for a knight living in legend. The love triangle of Arthur, Lancelot, and Guenever (called Gwen by Arthur and Jenny by Lancelot) is given life and understanding, real force. When I finished this book, I had to stop and swallow all the angst and love before I could continue.
A Candle in the Wind begins with some of the most monotonous descriptive writing possible, with White devoting ten solid pages to Lancelot and Guenever looking out a window onto medieval England. I began to believe that White was desperate to incorporate all his research. Once the story got going, however, I couldn't put it down as the tragedy of King Arthur's life unfolded.
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