Good ol’ Wikipedia has the theories and the references if you wish to explore his life a bit more, I’ll admit I am only here for the wonderful stories. I knew nothing about T.H White and reading up on him he certainly was interesting, there are speculations he was a homosexual sadomasochist into small girls not a homosexual, all these things. This is certainly evident in the later books as well. It is darker, and White’s indirect experience of World War II had a profound effect on these tales of King Arthur, which include commentaries on war and human nature. The version of The Sword in the Stone included in the complete text The Once and Future King differs from the earlier version.
But when the complete collection was compiled there were five stories in total and the order was altered a bit. Two sequels were published, The Witch in the Wood (later rewritten as The Queen of Air and Darkness ) in 1939, and The Ill-Made Knigh t in 1940. Terence Hanbury White was born in Bombay in 1906, and was 32 when he published The Sword in the Stone, which was initially meant as a prequel to Sir Thomas Malory ‘s famous 1485 Le Morte d’Arthur.
Today is T.H White ‘s birthday, the man who wrote the series The Once and Future King, about the legend of Arthur, Merlyn, and the knights of Camelot.
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