T. H White
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Johnnie was a teenager.
He only wanted to do what most teenagers do.
But one day a man who was supposed to be the Sheriff, wasn't.
He attacked Johnnie, kidnapping his mother.
Just like that Johnnie's life became a nightmare as he became a teen on the run from a monster impersonating the Sheriff.
A monster that can weird things. Strange things. Deadly things.
And who wanted his soul!
A monster with magical powers!
On the run he seeks the help...
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This amusing foray into eighteenth century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own, men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public with a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between the so-called Age of Reason and the Romantic Revival - that which the author calls the Age of Scandal - aristocratic and privileged eccentrics flourished. Here we meet notorious persons...
3) El azor
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Un bello clásico de la literatura que reflexiona sobre el vínculo entre ser humano y animal.
¿Cuál es la relación entre hombre y bestia? Publicado por primera vez en 1951, El azor describe con desnuda honestidad la trascendental experiencia de White al intentar entrenar un azor salvaje, un tipo de ave muy difícil de adiestrar. Sin conocimientos previos y armado con unos pocos manuales de cetrería anticuados, White intentó doblegar la voluntad...
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Series
Once and future king volume 5
Description
The long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King, in which King Arthur faces his final battle against his son.
This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White's papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication in 1977. While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard...
Author
Series
Once and future king volume 5
Description
The long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King, in which King Arthur faces his final battle against his son.
This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White's papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication in 1977. While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard...
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Description
"There's an angel in the chimney!" Mrs. O'Callaghan had come up with some pretty farfetched notions, but when she came running to Mr. White with this announcement, he was convinced she'd lost all touch with reality. Yet when the sensible English writer-whose only mistake had been to set up his workshop on the O'Callaghan's rundown Irish farm-ventured into the kitchen to see what had so upset his landlady, he was shocked to discover that the Archangel...
Author
Series
Once and future king volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1958
Physical Desc
677 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The story of King Arthur.
9) Camelot
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A musical interpretation of the legend of King Arthur.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
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The English king dies leaving no heir. In the churchyard of a cathedral in London, a sword appears imbedded in a stone. It is inscribed with a prophecy. Although many try, no one can budge the sword from the stone. Deep in the dark woods, Merlin the Magician begins to teach 11-year-old Arthur, who lives in the castle of Sir Ector where he's an apprentice squire to Sir Kay. Arthur learns the basic truths of life, but he also runs into the evil Madam...