T.H. White
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born
May 29, 1906
died
January 17, 1964
gender
male
place of birth
Bombay, India
genre
Literature & Fiction, Children's Books
influences
Thomas Malory
about this author
Born in Bombay to English parents, White was educated at Cambridge and taught for some time at Stowe before deciding to write full-time. White moved to Ireland in 1939 as a conscientious objector to WWII, and lived out his years there.
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The Once and Future King by T.H. White avg rating 4.05 — 6,278 ratings — published 1958 34 editions |
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The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White avg rating 3.91 — 481 ratings — published 1938 19 editions |
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The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once & Future King by T.H. White avg rating 3.68 — 467 ratings — published 1977 21 editions |
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Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White avg rating 3.97 — 101 ratings — published 1946 8 editions |
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The Goshawk by T.H. White avg rating 3.39 — 31 ratings — published 1951 6 editions |
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The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the 12th Century by T.H. White avg rating 4.04 — 26 ratings — published 1954 5 editions |
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The Ill Made Knight by T.H. White avg rating 3.83 — 18 ratings — published 1940 2 editions |
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Darkness at Pemberley by T.H. White avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published 1978 |
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The Witch in the Wood by T.H. White avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1939 |
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The Magic World of T.H. White: Mistress Masham's Repose/Book of Merlyn/Once & Future King by T.H. White avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1977 |
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"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
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education
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"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
— T.H. White
— T.H. White
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