![]() ![]() ![]() Merlyn magically turns him into various animals at times, and he also has more human adventures. The premise is that Arthur's youth, not dealt with in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485), was a time when he was tutored by Merlyn to prepare him for the use of power and royal life. In 2014, The Sword in the Stone was awarded the Retro-Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1939. Time included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Walt Disney Productions adapted the story to an animated film, and the BBC adapted it to radio. A fantasy of the boyhood of King Arthur (in the story an orphan named Wart who draws the sword from a stone to discover his true identity), it is a sui generis work which combines elements of legend, history, fantasy and comedy. First published by Collins in the United Kingdom as a stand-alone work, it later became the first part of a tetralogy, The Once and Future King. The Sword in the Stone is a 1938 novel by British writer T. Theme: King Arthur as a child growing up.Genres: Arthurian Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, YA.Awards: 1939 Retro Hugo Award, awarded 2014. ![]()
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