Book Series Guide
T. H. White

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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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Cover of The Sword in the Stone

The Sword in the Stone

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

Cover of The Goshawk

The Goshawk

A distinctive standalone memoir showing White's nonfiction voice and lifelong interest in falconry.

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Books by series

novel-series · complete

The Once and Future King

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.

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  1. 1 Cover of The Sword in the Stone
    The Sword in the Stone

    Book 1 · novel · 1938

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  2. 2 Cover of The Witch in the Wood
    The Witch in the Wood

    Book 2 · novel · 1939

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  3. 3
    The Ill-Made Knight

    Book 3 · novel · 1940

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  4. 4 Cover of The Once and Future King
    The Once and Future King

    Book 4 · omnibus · 1958

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  5. 5 Cover of The Book of Merlyn
    The Book of Merlyn

    Book 5 · novel · 1977

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (11)
  1. Dead Mr. Nixon

    novel · 1931

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  2. Darkness at Pemberley

    novel · 1932

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  3. First Lesson

    novel · 1932

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  4. They Winter Abroad

    novel · 1932

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  5. Farewell Victoria

    novel · 1933

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  6. Earth Stopped; or, Mr. Marx's Sporting Tour

    novel · 1934

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  7. Gone to Ground; or, The Sporting Decameron

    novel · 1935

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  8. Burke's Steerage; or, The Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes

    nonfiction · 1938

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    Mistress Masham's Repose

    novel · 1946

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  10. Cover of The Elephant and the Kangaroo
    The Elephant and the Kangaroo

    novel · 1947

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  11. The Master: An Adventure Story

    novel · 1957

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Nonfiction (4)
  1. Cover of England Have My Bones
    England Have My Bones

    memoir · 1936

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  2. Cover of The Goshawk
    The Goshawk

    memoir · 1951

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  3. The Godstone and the Blackymor

    memoir · 1959

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  4. America at Last: The American Journal of T. H. White

    memoir · 1965

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Essays and speeches (2)
  1. The Age of Scandal: An Excursion Through a Minor Period

    essay-collection · 1950

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  2. The Scandalmonger

    essay-collection · 1952

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Poetry (5)
  1. Loved Helen and Other Poems

    poetry · 1929

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  2. The Green Bay Tree; or, The Wicked Man Touches Wood

    poetry · 1929

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  3. Song through Space and Other Poems

    poetry · 1935

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  4. Verses

    poetry · 1962

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  5. A Joy Proposed

    poetry · 1980

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Other (2)
  1. The White/Garnett Letters

    letters · 1968

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  2. Letters to a Friend: The Correspondence Between T. H. White and L. J. Potts

    letters · 1982

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