The book has been tremendously influential, serving as the source material for Disney’s The Sword in the Stone, opens a new window and Camelot, opens a new window, the Lerner and Lowe musical, and inspiring among others J.K. ¹ He called the tetralogy The Once and Future King, and odds are you’re familiar with some of its content.
It compiled three of White’s Arthurian works from almost two decades earlier, The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, and The Ill-Made Knight, and added a fourth book, The Candle in the Wind. Published in 1958, The Once and Future King is an all at once hysterical, beautiful, silly, philosophical, joyous, and heartbreaking retelling of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, opens a new window. White’s The Once and Future King, opens a new window, one of my very favorite books and the Arthurian apple of my eye.
Inspired by Leah’s look at some new and old Arthurian classics earlier this year, opens a new window, I decided to revisit T.
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