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The complete "box set" of T. H. White's epic fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: "The Sword in the Stone", "The Witch in the Wood", "The Ill-Made Knight", "The Candle in the Wind", and "The Book of Merlyn".

This modern classic of nature writing by the author of The Once and Future King was an inspiration for and featured in Helen Macdonald's prize-winning H Is for Hawk. "No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist's art. One is matching one's mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest. One desires no transference of affection, demands no ignoble homage or gratitude. It is a tonic for the less forthright savagery of the human heart."

This is one of the most popular re-tellings of the story of King Arthur. Like The Lord of the Rings, this fantasy novel has been equally popular among younger readers and adults. White takes an inventive approach that involves animals who speak and Robin Hood! A true Arthurian classic.

In these last two books, the ageing king faces the greatest challenge of his reign, when his own son threatens to overthrow him and destroy everything he has worked for. In The Book of Merlyn, Arthur's tutor Merlyn reappears, and the ancient magician teaches him that, even in the face of apparent ruin, there is still hope.

These two stories are the second and third parts of T. H. White's classic and individual fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend. Arthur has become king, Guinevere and Launcelot (The Ill-Made Knight) fall in love, and the kingdom is threatened from the north.

The Sword in the Stone is the first novel in The Once and Future King, T. H. White's epic fantasy re-telling of the Arthurian legend. A cartoon adaptation by Walt Disney made it into an enduring favourite for the young.

In Teil 3 von "Der König auf Camelot" geht es um den besten und berühmtesten Ritter der Tafelrunde: Sir Lanzelot. Zentrales Thema ist seine unglückliche - aber erwiderte - Liebe zu König Arthurs Frau, Königin Ginevra...

Die Königin von Luft und Dunkelheit erzählt von den Kämpfen des Königs mit den Clans der "Alten" und der Idee der Tafelrunde. Aber auch diesmal ist wieder viel Magie mit im Spiel: Einhörner, Aventiuren-Tiere und Zauber-Barken entführen in phantastische Abenteuer, die in einer folgenschweren Begegnung zwischen König Arthur und seiner Halbschwester Morgause, der Königin von Orkney, gipfeln.

Das Königreich England scheint dem Untergang nahe: Königin Ginevra wird der Untreue bezichtigt, Lanzelot verbannt, die Tafelrunde zersplittert in Gruppen, ein erbitterter Krieg beginnt: nur die Hoffnung auf "die Kerze im Wind" - die Idee der Tafelrunde und ihrer hehren Ziele - lässt König Arthur weiterkämpfen...

Der König auf Camelot - wohl der witzigste und spannendste Ritterroman um König Arthur und seine Tafelrunde, um die mächtige Fee Morgan und den Zauberer Merlin und die endlose Suche nach dem Heiligen Gral...