T. H. White Books

T. H. 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. 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. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons. 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. 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. “[The Once and Future King] mingles wisdom, wonderful, laugh-out-loud humor and deep sorrow—while telling one of the great tales of the Western world.”—Guy Gavriel Kay

This account of one man’s tempestuous relationship with the hawk he trained is at once a comedy of errors, a classic of nature writing, and one of the best glimpses into the world of falconry. The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence—“the bird reverted to a feral state”—seized his imagination and he immediately wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient of depriving him of sleep. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love. White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.

"... a personal as well as historical story that crisscrosses the centuries on the question of war & peace." - NY Times This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth spent weeks on the New York Times Best-seller List following its publication in 1977. Even in addressing the profound issues of war & peace, The Book of Merlyn retains the life & sparkle for which White is known. The tale brings Arthur full circle, an ending, White wrote, that "will turn my completed epic into a perfect fruit, 'rounded off & bright & done'."

A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many other exotic animals. White's witty, erudite commentary on scientific and historical aspects enhances this survey of proto-zoology on which science is based and pre-scientific perceptions of the earth's creatures. 128 black-and-white illustrations.

Viele Menschen kennen die Geschichte von Gulliver und die Abenteuer, die er in Lilliput erlebte. Aber nur wenige wissen, dass einige Lilliputaner von Gullivers Retter, Kapitän Biddle, nach England verschleppt wurden. Ihre Nachkommen leben immer noch dort, versteckt im großen und verwahrlosten Park von Schloss Malplaquet. Dort entdeckt sie Maria, die zehnjährige Schlossherrin. Mit einiger Mühe muss Maria lernen, dass man mit Menschen nicht spielen, ihren Willen nicht brechen darf – auch wenn sie sehr klein sind. Doch als es ihr gelungen ist, das Vertrauen der Lilliputaner zu erringen, werden diese Marias beste Verbündete im Kampf um ihr eigenes Erbe.

Die Geschichte folgt einem Jungen namens Wart, der von dem Zauberer Merlyn auf seine zukünftige Rolle als König Arthur vorbereitet wird. In einer Welt voller Abenteuer und Magie wird Arthur zum Herrscher über Camelot, wo er die ritterlichen Ideale verkörpert und die berühmte Tafelrunde gründet. Doch hinter den glanzvollen Kulissen lauern Verrat und Konflikte, darunter die verbotene Liebe zwischen Guenever und Lancelot sowie die finsteren Machenschaften von Arthurs Halbschwester Morgause. Diese Elemente bedrohen sowohl das Königreich als auch Arthurs eigene Träume.