White’s The Once and Future King, which I read in late high school. Perhaps my favorite rendition, however, was T.H. Sutcliff made the characters real, especially one of my favorite characters, Sir Gawain, who was a hot mess of emotion and inner turmoil. Green’s rendition of the story was fairly straightforward-simple, yet gripping enough for a kid to get the gist. When I was a bit older, I graduated to Rosemary Sutcliff’s retellings and was transfixed by how authors could mutate the characters ever-so-slightly. I ate it up in a day, and then I’d reread it, and I used it as the standard to which I compared other Arthurian novels. That book ended up being one of the most-read books of my younger years.
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