6/2/2023 0 Comments The sword in the stone novel![]() He is very engaging and witty and I thought also of Whitehouse and The Strictest School in the World series. There are several passages that made me grin and snicker outloud. White before (as I had not prior to this book) I think you might be charmed by his writing style. White lived both to the see the Broadway adaptation as well as Disney's interpretation of his works. The Once and Future King (published before White's death) was adapted into the Disney movie The Sword in the Stone as well as the Broadway musical, Camelot (which was then, of course, turned into a movie by the same name. (I'd have been disgruntled to discover I'd read a revision.) ![]() Not having known this before I started the read, I'm very glad to have found a 1939 version which is the original story first published by White. White's death) but the original story was also revised a few times. ![]() ![]() First published in 1938 it appears to have not only been expanded into a series (the final story being The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King - which was published after author T.H. The Sword in the Stone (the book) seems to have a fairly interesting history. I wanted to read it because it is a book that a Disney film is based on and before the Disney-fied version of The Sword in the Stone went back into the Disney vault, I wanted to see if this was a on-screen story that we'd be interested owning. ![]() Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74)Ī few months back I found a 1939 copy of The Sword in the Stone at our local used bookstore. ![]()
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