If a reader reads only one Arthurian tale, let this be it.'- Booklist ' The Once and Future King is full of insights, scenes and flourishes that are really quite astonishing.'- The Guardian (U.K.), 'A fierce and damaged man, T. What was once as stiff and two-dimensional as a medieval tapestry becomes rich and real and devastatingly sad.'-Lev Grossman 'Touching, profound, funny and tragic.'- Los Angeles Times 'Richly imagined and unfailingly eloquent and entertaining, its appeal is timeless and universal. I envy the reader coming to it for the first time.'-Guy Gavriel Kay 'White took hold of the ultimate English epic and recast it in modern literary language, sacrificing none of its grandeur or its strangeness in the process, and adding in all the humor and passion that we expect from a novel. It mingles wisdom, wonderful, laugh-out-loud humor and deep sorrow-while telling one of the great tales of the Western world. It manages-by some miracle-to be about its own time, and a distant, legendary time, and about today. The Once and Future King is like that for me. Le Guin 'Certain books offer pleasures so rich and enduring, they become part of what defines us. He is so good at hurt and shame-how did he also manage to be so funny? I have laughed at his great Arthurian novel and cried over it and loved it all my life.'-Ursula K. White wrote about fierce and damaged people-and children, and animals-with a brilliant, painful innocence that has no equal in literature. ' mingles wisdom, wonderful, laugh-out-loud humor and deep sorrow-while telling one of the great tales of the Western world.' - Guy Gavriel Kay But Merlyn foresaw the treachery that awaited his liege: the forbidden love between Queen Guenever and Lancelot, the wicked plots of Arthur's half-sister Morgause and the hatred she fostered in Mordred that would bring an end to the king's dreams for Britain-and to the king himself. During Arthur's reign, the kingdom of Camelot was founded to cast enlightenment on the Dark Ages, while the knights of the Round Table embarked on many a noble quest. A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons.

A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. Once upon a time, a young boy called 'Wart' was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn't possibly imagine. White's masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations.

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