![]() ![]() Just like every other good book, actually. It is about might, and society, and war and love, and youth and age, about doing the right thing, candles in the wind, passing-on-the-parcel and what-not, and about any human emotion you could think of. All the while assuming that you are not among the lucky ones who can content thenselves with the somewhat mysterous equation that "life is its own meaning".Īh, the book. Maybe you can live, without knowing exactly what's the idea of it. And you try to just be friends with the idea that you won't ever find any real answer, or discover any "pure" truth, and that answers may not even be relevant. So you find that living a life is playing a game without knowing the rules. How much it would help you to find an answer, even if it were but for one of them! Still, the more you learn and watch and listen, everything only gets more complex, continuously. And the questions multiply and become more and more important, as you are struggling to make the right decisions. ![]() Naturally, while you are small you do not worry too much about what it is all about: You will surely find the answers as you grow up. Show More Those so-called big philosophic questions you start to ask yourself while you are a kid - though you would not have called them philosophic back then. After White's death a connected novel called The Book of Merlyn was published, but I don't find it as engaging. The Once and Future King has the most complex depictions of Arthur, Lancelot and Guenivere I've read and I think no matter what version of them I read afterwards, these are the ones I imprinted on-this is my Arthur, my Guinevere and my Lancelot. The next parts are very much adult and much darker, particularly the final and poignant fourth part, "The Candle in the Wind," dealing with the fall of Camelot. I loved that first part of the book especially-full of wisdom and whimsy as Merlyn-who lives backward in time-turns Arthur into different animals in order to help him gain wisdom, and the characters are truly endearing and the story full of humor that makes this part stand alone as a classic children's book. The best known of those was the first part, The Sword in the Stone, a great coming of age tale that was turned into a film by Disney. ![]() Show More parts weren't originally written as part of the integrated novel but published separately. ![]() “ 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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