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Cargando... The Ill-Made Knight (1940)por T. H. White
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) RaggedyMe | Aug 12, 2023 |  This book is actually written like a biography or history as opposed to fiction. The author pretending that arthur was real but that historical scholars have so far not known the real facts and here they are. It does however occasionally do the annoying thing of admitting it doesn't have all the answers. This makes sense with real history but whenever it happens here i couldn't help but think, 'you're making it all up!, if you can't explain why someone is acting a certain way its because you're a bad writer!' :lol . I thought this was going to be a lot darker than it is. A Watchmen style deconstruction of the arthurian heros, and i guess that's sort of true but without the darkness. I would say Idyll's is more like Watchmen, this is more like... Kickass :) . Idyll's gives us realistic heroes in an unreal world, while despite a fair bit more magic, White gives us real people in a fairly real world. He also gives us humour, some of which seems to come completely out of left field and the book seems quite uneven in tone. Also there is a very odd aesthetic, in that the whole thing has this underlying 1940's viewpoint. He compares jousting to cricket and characters occasionally use modern vernacular at random moments. It actually feels like a Connecticut Yankee at times. As if the personality of the characters has been time-warped back from the 40's. Overall my opinion went up and down quite a bit throughout, it did finally get into a gallop in the final quarter which is when it really seemed to make the points which it was trying to do throughout. I'd like to give it a lower score just to separate it from Idyll's but its still good while not a favorite of mine. I prefer fiction to history anyway, even if the history is fictional ;) . (  ) wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 | complete the love triangle try for a threesome. (  ) Eggpants | Jun 25, 2020 | ) RaggedyMandy | Apr 22, 2020 | Years before The Mists of Avalon, White grappled with the Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot triangle and came up with his own solution, of real people trying on the whole to do the decent thing in a time of bitter conflict, to a certain extent making it up as they go along; drawing on Malory and Spenser and Tennyson, but also making the story his own. I think I first read it when I was thirteen, and had maybe reread it once in the subsequent 35 years, but I was pleased at how much of it seemed both familiar and fresh. (  ) nwhyte | Jun 11, 2016 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The Ill-Made Knightby T. H. White Lancelot, despite being the bravest of the knights, is ugly, and ape-like, so that he calls himself the Chevalier mal fet - "The Ill-Made Knight". As a child, Lancelot loved King Arthur and spent his entire childhood training to be a knight of the round table. When he arrives and becomes one of Arthur's knights, he also becomes the king's close friend. This causes some tension, as he is jealous of Arthur's new wife Guinevere. In order to please her husband, Guinevere tries to befriend Lancelot and the two eventually fall in love. T.H. White's version of the tale elaborates greatly on the passionate love of Lancelot and Guinevere. Suspense is provided by the tension between Lancelot's friendship for King Arthur and his love for and affair with the queen.The third book from the collection The Once and Future King.We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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