Most Popular Books by Terence Hanbury White

A novel about the court of King Arthur, which was the basis for the movie "Camelot". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

.,."a personal as well as historical story that crisscrosses the centuries on the question of war and peace." -- New York 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 and peace, The Book of Merlyn retains the life and 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 and bright and done.''"

The pride and endurance of a wild raptor are worn down by the insistent willpower of a falconer.

The success of his autobiography, England Have My Bones, allowed him to leave teaching after six years and devote his time to writing. Although he wrote a wide array of novels and some poetry, he is best known for The Once and Future King, his four-volume retelling of the legend of King Arthur, which became the basis for both the musical, Camelot, and the Disney film, The Sword in the Stone.

Ten-year-old Maria, an orphan living on a crumbling English estate and mistreated by her guardians, meets the descendants of the Lilliputians on an overgrown island and they discover ways to help each other.

A story of Sir Lancelot.

Impressions of contemporary U.S. life gained by an English novelist during a lecture tour in 1963.

Twelve-year-old twins are kidnapped by the strange inhabitants of a huge rock which houses an ancient man, the Master, who plans to dominate the world with an antidote to the atomic bomb, but he doesn''t count on the interference of the children and especially of their dog.