The Once and Future King
T.H. White · 1958
The definitive Arthurian retelling: four novels tracking Arthur from boyhood with Merlyn through the final tragedy. White's is the Camelot that all subsequent versions must reckon with. Funny, anachronistic, heartbreaking.
The case against
Whiplash is the price of admission. You begin in a children's comedy with jousting lessons and end in a tract on war, and the seams between the four books never stop showing. White lectures through Merlyn at length, and his Morgause is pure venom, a mother written by a man settling scores with his own.
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