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THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

By T. H. White

(1958) The Once and Future King is the collective volume of works, loosley based on

Sir Thomas Malory s Morte d Arthur (c.1469), which includes The Sword in the Stone,

The Queen of Air and Darkness (formerly The Witch in the Wood), The Ill-Made

Knight, and The Candle in the Wind. It is probably the most famous and popular of T. H.

White’s books.

A brief synopsis

by Tia Nevitt

The Sword in the Stone, is about Arthur’s childhood. He is not called Arthur at this point,

but The Wart, a name bestowed on him by his foster brother, Kay. The Wart lives in Sir

Ector’s castle in the Forest Savauge. Of the five books, this one is the one most suitable

for children. An early adventure in the book is about how the Wart found Merlyn. Merlyn

becomes the boys’ tutor, and the Wart is sent on many strange adventures when he is

turned into various animals. The book ends just after the Wart pulls the sword from the

stone, and becomes Arthur, King of England.

Right away, he must go to war to defend his claim. Among his aggressors is Lot, King of

the Orkney Isles. The second book, The Queen of Air and Darkness, is primarily

concerned with the lives of Lot’s young sons, and his wife Morgause. The sons love their

mother, even though they know she is evil, and this causes many problems later in the

book.

The third book, The Ill-Made Knight is about Lancelot. Of all the different renditions of

the Arthurian legends, I like White’s rendering of Lancelot the best. Although he is the

greatest knight in the world, he is cursed with a freakishly ugly face. White makes it clear

that he looks like an ape. I wish the producers of the movie version of the musical

Camelot, which is based on this book, had the courage to present Lancelot as he is

presented in this book.

Lancelot has a lot of problems which he attempts, not very successfully, to resolve. His

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