WHITE, T. H.

£5,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Sword in the Stone. First edition of the most significant work of Arthurian literature in the 20th century. Based on Malory's Morte Darthur, the novel reinvigorated the mythology for new and younger readers.Initially intended as a stand-alone work, the success of the novel led to White expanding it into a tetralogy of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King. The novel was adapted by Disney into an animated film in 1963.

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