The Sword in the Stone

Paperback | 1 December 1991

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Only the magician Merlin knew that his pupil, Wart, would one day be the great King Arthur. For six years he was the boy's tutor, until the day King Pendragon died without an heir. Then a sword embedded in a stone appeared, bearing the claim that whosoever can withdraw it will be the next king.

Industry Reviews

Here's a book which I advise someone on your staff to read. I frankly confess that with me it failed to "click" - and yet I know, there are people who will find it (or pretend to find it) "utterly charming." In nonsense vein, with a bit of whimsy - and a background of profound knowledge of the lore of England's myths and legends, of King Arthur and his knights, in the making, of Robin Hood and his merrie men, of chivalry and witchery and the fundamentals of nature in woodland and water, the author tells in reverse the story of the training of "the Wart", of his experiences in other worlds than human through the agency of his tutor, Merlyn, and of his eventual emergence as King Arthur. I loved the transformation scenes; I loved the nature passages. The balance alternately annoyed and irritated me. And the intermingling of bits of modernity, deliberately off key, seemed to add nothing but a sense of tomfoolery to the whole. It is co-choice for Logan Pearsall Smith's utterly delightful Unforgotten Years as Book-of-the-Month for January, so is apt to get a good press. (Kirkus Reviews)

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