NOTE that the version included in the 1958 The Once and Future King contains revisions to the original story, with both additions and subtractions. The novel received the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1939 (the British edition having come out in 1938). The author provides the childhood of Arthur that is missing from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, taking it up to the point where he miraculously pulls the sword from the stone and is recognized as king. They are educated in hawking, jousting, and various other activities together, but Warts unknown parentage gives him a lower class status.

A fantasy novel dealing with the Arthurian legends, this novel was the first of the four part series that became The Once and Future King. Told in an episodic structure, The Sword in the Stone starts with the story of Wart and his companion Kay, the son of local nobleman Sir Ector. The Binding is full blue cloth with gilt design of sword in stone on the front board, somewhat dulled gilt title, etc., to spine, all corners square, and a slight curve to the rear board. The Text Block is clean, mildly tanned, straight and slightly canted, with red topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no marks or markings of any kind. First (1st) Printing of First American Edition (title page and copyright page with same date and no further printings listed on copyright page, per 1928 statement of publisher - see Zempel and Verkler, First Editions: A Guide to Identification, 2nd Ed., p. Walt Disney Productions adapted the story to an animated film, and the BBC adapted it to radio. The royal ceremony on Saturday, the first in 70 years, will aim to show the solidity of Britain, even as many in the country have met the coronation with indifference. White envisioned the book as a preface to Mallorys Le Morte DArthur, which did not.

With its slapstick humour and wizardry - forget Harry Potter, Merlin is the one - its probably the most. White, published in 1938, initially a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy The Once and Future King. White, is the story of Arthurs childhood. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1939. Book one of TH Whites junior classic The Once and Future King was published in 1939.

The sword in the stone by th white