
The predecessor to Helen Macdonald s "H Is for Hawk," T. H. White s nature-writing classic, "The Goshawk," asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of "The Once and Future King" and "Mistress Masham s Repose," was a young writer who found himself rifling through old …

Mistress Masham's Repose is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift's satirical classic Gulliver's Travels. The story is set in Northamptonshire, England, just after the Second World War; in one chapter Maria plays …

The Sword in the Stone is a novel by T. H. White, published in 1938, initially as a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy The Once and Future King. A fantasy of the boyhood of King Arthur, it is a sui generis work which combines elements of legend, history, fantasy and comedy. Walt Disney Productions …