A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President--1960 helped to alter the st...
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Socially awkward and largely reclusive, T. H. White managed to turn his obsession with King Arthur and his knights into one of the most popular and most critically acclaimed books of his generation, T...
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Like British scholars C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Terence Hanbury White turned his concern for the events leading to World War II into the unexpected--a highly original children's book, The Swor...
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T. H. White is best known for his transformations of stories of the past. His four-volume masterpiece, The Once and Future King (1958), gives new life to the works of Sir Thomas Malory, and White also...
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Critical Essay by Beatrice Sherman
That scholarly, witty and enthusiastic medievalist, Mr. T.H. White, has produced a third fine book devoted to the Arthurian legends. Sir Lancelot of the Lake, the &...
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Critical Essay by Olive B. White
When a novelist enchanted by one of the world's great matters reaches his third volume, as Mr. White does in his successor to "The Sword in the Stone&#x...
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Critical Essay by Time
The men & women of Lilliput stood a good six inches in their stocking feet. Mounted on speedy rats and armored in the wing cases of beetles, they hunted mice and moles, and...
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Critical Essay by Francis X. Connolly
It is difficult not to do this extraordinary book a disservice by praising it with extravagant enthusiasm. In a world which is overgenerous with its superlatives...
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Critical Essay by Charles Lee
["The Elephant and the Kangaroo"] is a satirical fantasy set in Ireland….
The apparatus required for this latest demonstration of White magic inc...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Sugrue
Were there a group libel law in force, it could be invoked by the Irish to put Mr. T. H. White in jail for several thousand years. In "The Elephant and the Kang...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Mr. White's theme [in The Goshawk] is as old as Babylon but his allusiveness is of the twentieth century. He has the gift of words, which calls ...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch
["The Goshawk"], widely hailed in England with such phrases as "a masterpiece," "unforgettably interesting," and "...
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Critical Essay by Henry Morton Robinson
At first glance "The Goshawk" … appears to be a day-to-day account of a curiously personal conflict between a full-grown man and a fledgli...
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Critical Essay by John Bayley
What goes on inside Rockall? A fascinating hypothesis is supplied this week by T. H. White, in [The Master], which he himself describes as 'a simple adventure sto...
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Critical Essay by Maurice Richardson
The Master is an ingenious extravaganza on the borders of science fiction, satire and straight adventure. It has affinities with the Hibbert Journal and the Boy&#...
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Critical Essay by Donald Barr
"The Master," subtitled "An Adventure Story," concerns two well-born English children held captive in a hollow rock in mid-Atlantic, where am...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Mr. White has now brought to a conclusion the great work which began in 1938 with the publication of The Sword in the Stone. In 1940 The Witch in the W...
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Critical Essay by Richard Winston
In a sense Time is the hero and chief victim of T. H. White's version of the Arthurian legends—Time with his scythe bent out of shape, his beard knotte...
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Critical Essay by John K. Crane
As a man, but not as a writer, T. H. White may be best compared to Ernest Hemingway. They were more than contemporaries and look-alikes; they were also remarkably clos...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
[The Maharajah and Other Stories] is a uniquely charming miscellany of the supernatural, the grotesque and the beautiful. White is preeminent among that distinguis...
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Critical Essay by Frank Kelly
White's principal subjects [in The Maharajah and Other Stories] are deformity and aberration—both physical and psychological—and the everpresent ten...
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Critical Essay by Beatrice Sherman
T.H. White has an outstanding capacity for writing about medieval times as merry and lively days, with their own share of the problems of living and loving, war and...
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Critical Essay by William J. Grace
If "The Witch in the Wood" is not a spurious book, I shall eat my hat or seek the Questing Beast therein mentioned. That thousands may read Mr. White&...
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Critical Essay by Beatrice Sherman
