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The Ill-Made Knight (The Once and Future King #3)

T.H. White

Hardcover | Pages: 291 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 1622 Users | 156 Reviews

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Title	:	The Ill-Made Knight (The Once and Future King #3)
Author	:	T.H. White
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	June 1940 by Putnam Publishing Group (first published 1940)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Classics. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mythology. Arthurian

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The Ill-Made Knight is based around the adventures, perils and mistakes of Sir Lancelot. Lancelot, despite being the bravest of the knights, is ugly, and ape-like, so that he calls himself the Chevalier mal fet - "The Ill-Made Knight". As a child, Lancelot loved King Arthur and spent his entire childhood training to be a knight of the round table. When he arrives and becomes one of Arthur's knights, he also becomes the king's close friend. This causes some tension, as he is jealous of Arthur's new wife Guinevere. In order to please her husband, Guinevere tries to befriend Lancelot and the two eventually fall in love. T.H. White's version of the tale elaborates greatly on the passionate love of Lancelot and Guinevere. Suspense is provided by the tension between Lancelot's friendship for King Arthur and his love for and affair with the queen.

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Original Title:	The Ill Made Knight
ISBN:	999740985X (ISBN13: 9789997409850)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Once and Future King #3
Literary Awards:	Retro Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016)

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This rather sad retelling of the story of Sir Lancelot focused on the warrior's obsession with his own ugliness and inadequacy.

The Ill Made Knight covers the story of Lancelot from his beginnings to near the end of the time in Camelot, and chronicles his love for Guinevere and Elaine's love for him, and his struggles in the quest for the grail. I was quite amused by the references back to Malory, and found myself rather wanting to revisiting that book (in the original, of course: not an abridgement or a retelling).T.H. White has a certain amount of tenderness for and an understanding of his characters that makes their

2.5 stars. Hated Lancelot.He would not call himself Sir Lancelot. He would call himself the Chevalier Mal Fetthe Ill-Made Knight.So far as he could seeand he felt that there must be some reason for it somewherethe boys face was as ugly as a monsters in the Kings menagerie.This story begins the downfall of Arthur. Readers learn a great deal about Lancelot the son of a French king who decides from a very young age to dub himself Chevalier mal fetThe Ill-Made Knight because Lancelot is supposedly

A tale of Lancelot's life. As he is described to be very ugly, I sympathised very much with him. Again, as so often with White, the description of the boy's heart and mind are very wormhearted and genuine. Then there is the love affair between Lancelot and Arthur's wife Geneviere (Jenny), which for me was also very true to life and tender. When Arthur starts the quest for the Grail, everything gets a little theoretical. Lancelot's wish to find god left me cold, but I guess that's just the nature

An altogether different style to the first two; more depressing, with a lot less humour. But then, I guess thats mirroring the storyline of the legends of Arthur. Or maybe its just because Merlyns gone.Good for the type of book it is, and it was interesting to get a clear picture of Whites idea of the main characters thoughts and feelings, where other writers are slightly ambiguous; especially concerning the wretched love triangle.

T.H. White doesn't make me feel as sympathetic and tender toward Lancelot as Steinbeck does, though there are some similarities in the two treatments. The way he talks about Guinevere, too -- I don't know, it bothers me. It's tender and it tries to understand her, but at the same time it's so condescending and just... knowing from research how closely the portrayals of Morgan/Morgause and Guinevere are linked, and knowing how Morgause is portrayed in the earlier books, it shades T.H. White's

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. T.H. White, The Ill-Made Knight You might think a novel that basically focuses on a love-triangle (a quadrilateral if you include God), several affairs, a man's struggle between his love for a woman, love for God, love for his best friend, would not hold the interest of a 13 and an 11-year old for long, but this is T.H. White. The Ill-Made Knight characters are so human, so filled with