So I re-read King and am now reading this book to finish the story. I started reading it late last year after not having read Once and Future King for about 30 years, and it didn't quite make sense. But will the world be ready to listen?” -Mercedes Lackey, New York Times–bestselling author of the Valdemar and Elves on the Road series Read more And the world has as much need of it today as it did then-more, perhaps. As wonderful and fearful to read today as it was when I first found it in 1978. Joyful and despairing, heartbreaking, yet full of hope. “Such a small thing, The Book of Merlyn, to hold so much. We do well to revisit what that old schoolteacher of children, Merlyn, has been trying to point out to us about power and responsibility.” -Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, from the foreword The efficacy of treaties, the trading of insults among the potentates of the day, the testing of weapons, the weaponizing of trade-these strategies are still front and center. Certainly the moral questions about the military use of force perplex the world still. . . . Its reissue in our next century is just as welcome as when it first arrived forty years ago. . . .

The book is an elegiac posting from a master storyteller of the twentieth century. It gives us a final glimpse of those two immortal characters, Wart and Merlyn, up close, slo-mo, with a considered and affectionate scrutiny. “Arriving from beyond the curve of time and apparently from the grave, The Book of Merlyn stirs its own pages, saying, wait: you didn’t get the whole story. . . .

Rowling, Helen Macdonald, Neil Gaiman, and Lev Grossman. The Book of Merlyn has been cited as a major influence by such illustrious writers as Kazuo Ishiguro, J. More self-revealing than any other of White’s books, Merlyn shows his mind at work as he agonized over whether to join the fight against Nazi Germany while penning the epic that would become The Once and Future King. While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard son, Mordred, Arthur returns to the Animal Council with Merlyn, where the deliberations center on ways to abolish war. White’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication in 1977. This magical account of King Arthur’s last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T.

The long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King, in which King Arthur faces his final battle against his son.

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