
The Sword in the Stone
The accessible first volume of White's Arthurian sequence and the best introduction to his imagination and themes.

Author guide
Terence Hanbury White (1906–1964) was an English writer whose work ranged from Arthurian fantasy and children's fiction to detective novels, science fiction, poetry, sporting books, memoir, essays, and correspondence. His major achievement is The Once and Future King, a modern retelling of Malory's Arthurian legend. He also wrote extensively about natural history, falconry, rural life, travel, and eighteenth-century culture, sometimes publishing under the pseudonym James Aston.
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The accessible first volume of White's Arthurian sequence and the best introduction to his imagination and themes.

A distinctive standalone memoir showing White's nonfiction voice and lifelong interest in falconry.
Read in order
novel-series · complete
White's Arthurian sequence, comprising three separately published novels, the unified 1958 volume that first published The Candle in the Wind, and the posthumous The Book of Merlyn.
Outside the series
novel · 1931
novel · 1932
novel · 1932
novel · 1932
novel · 1933
novel · 1934
novel · 1935
nonfiction · 1938
novel · 1946
novel · 1947
novel · 1957