![]() Merlyn (White’s spelling) is there throughout, as too – unexpectedly for me – is Robin Hood, Little John, Maid Marian and many other knights and magical creatures who likely have a similar place in historic British/English folklore. This means that this first part of White’s book very much contains an absence of King Arthuryness, as there is only a King Arthur for about half of the final page… This post may seem disjointed, and I will likely contradict myself with facts of the books’ content and contexts, as I am going to add a paragraph or two as I read through the four novels contained within this one volume.įor a 200 page story titled The Sword in the Stone, there is very little sword and very little stone – the myth of the “true king of England” being able to unsheathe a rock-bound weapon isn’t mentioned until about 15 pages from the end. White’s magnum opus, a soaring, acclaimed set of four books (with an extra one – I’m pretty sure – that is much darker, possibly posthumous and not included in this handsome 1965 hardback) about the life of fictional British Christ-figure, King Arthur Pendragon. The Once and Future King is the novelist T. The second big book I selected to read when I arrived in the UK, following on from Tariq Ali’s Winston Churchill biog, was what is possibly the last “classic British Children’s Fiction” that I’ve never read. ![]() ![]() Cw: incest, animal cruelty discussed as plot points 1. ![]()
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