The Once and Future King.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [c. 1975]. Early book club edition. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Slight bumps and rubbing to corners and tips, lightly soiled top edge text block, owner inscription front pastedown, still near fine in very good, lightly soiled dust jacket with several small chips rear panel edges, light wear corners and tips, in mylar cover. Item #242768
KING ARTHUR FOR A NEW GENERATION
Inheriting Thomas Malory and Geoffrey of Monmouth's epic legends, T. H. White took up King Arthur's scepter for the twentieth century, drawing a new generation into the Knights of the Round Table. Having written his Queen's College thesis on Le Morte d'Arthur, White returned to Malory in a moment of desperation to find that Arthur's hero's journey needed a refresh. He crafted the Wart, a brilliant fantasy hero that Neil Gaiman and J. K. Rowling would go on to borrow from to craft their own coming-of-age stories.
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