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The Book of Merlyn - Community Reviews back

by T.H. White
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Shelf Indulgence
Shelf Indulgence rated it 10 years ago
According to what I've read about the Once and Future King books, this volume was initially intended to be included with the other four books in the omnibus printing. It was rejected due to wartime paper shortages, and was finally published a few years after White's death. I wanted to read this be...
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it 12 years ago
This is a longer version of the last book in the collected [b:The Once and Future King|43545|The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)|T.H. White|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1338741283s/43545.jpg|1140206] and also includes some material (the ant and goose segments) that was incorpor...
jbradway
jbradway rated it 13 years ago
I half-wish I'd read this as a teenager. The final book of the series that became The Once and Future King is a crummy finale to a well-told tale, but like the other volumes it asks great questions. Written at the end of Britain's WWII experience, it's naturally bogged down with questions of war, hu...
Books etc.
Books etc. rated it 15 years ago
It was so chock-full with politic I almost couldn't read it. The main thing that Merlyn believed due to human physiology the only political form that suits it is the one that relies on individualism, just like communism suits ant the best. Merlyn and his council of animal was so righteous about it, ...
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books
[These notes were made in 1981:]The fifth and last book of The Once and Future King, according to the PR. But without that trumpeting, one might be forgiven for thinking that this book is not part of the same overall plan as the others, though it is indisputably by the same author and "about" the sa...
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