Author

Publication

1939 - G. P. Putnam's sons, New York

Language

English

Word Count

67,250 words, Guess

Page Count

269 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPR6045 .H2 W8

Description

The second book in his epic work, The Once and Future King. It continues the story of the newly-crowned King Arthur, his tutelage by the wise Merlyn, his war against King Lot, and also introduces the Orkney clan, a group of characters who would cause the eventual downfall of the king.

First Sentence

THE LAND OF LOTHIAN AND ORKNEY lies in the northern latitudes. It is a country of bog and mountain, where the wind whistles all day, and at night the turf fires glow with small flames in a kind of rusty saffron. The nearest neighbors live ten miles apart, and the grouse say "Talk," and the wild merlins can be seen sweeping over the swelling lands in their pursuit of pipits and larks and the white-bottomed wheatears which dodge into gorse bushes. It is all heather and loveliness, and the town people say: "Aow, ain't it 'orrible. I can't bear them lonely places with nothink in them. It's sort of melancholy, annit?"

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  • The witch in the woodHardcoverG. P. Putnam's sons1939-01-01
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