title: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to the Once and Future King
author:  T. H. White 
description: THE BOOK OF MERLYN rounds off the story of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING and tells how Arthur, Guenever, and Lancelot comes to their ends. The tale begins with an aged and weary King Arthur sitting alone in his tent at Salisbury, awaiting his last battle. His childhood mentor Merlyn enters to give Arthur one last lesson in life, and the king is whisked away to the badgers sett to meet again with Animal Council, to which Merlyn had introduced him as a boy. Merlyn intends to show Arthur what can be learned from animals about the abolition of war. The badger, the owl, the hedgehog, and the rest put forth arguments to be countered by Merlyn and each other. Ultimately, Arthur must sort out the arguments on the morality of war himself, and he returns to the battle lines to attempt a truce with Mordred. This volume reveals more of White himself than the previous books of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING tetralogy  and therein lies much of its interest. THE BOOK OF MERLYN was written during his personal struggle with the question of whether to go to war against Nazi Germany. Here is an opportunity to see Whites mind at work, and Sylvia Townsend Warner  the notes English novelist and Whites major biographer  is an able guide. In her Prologue, she describes Merlyn as Whites mouthpiece for spleen, venting his fury against the human race who make war and glorify it. Even in addressing the profound issues of war and peace, THE BOOK OF MERLYN retains the life and sparkle for which White is known. White sent this book to his London publisher in 1941. WWII and the attendant disruptions and paper shortages, as well as the intensity of the antiwar feeling White expresses, all contributed to the decision not to publish the book. Texas Press discovered the manuscript in the archives of the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. THE BOOK OF MERLYN is the true last chapter of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING and concludes the story as White intended.
zlib_text: MERCILESS KING
  A LAWLESS KINGS NOVEL
  
  SHERILEE GRAY
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Sherilee Gray
  Cover Design:  Mayhem Cover Creations
  Editor: Andrea McKay
  Proofreading: Lillie’s Literary Services
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  for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either
  the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual
  persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
  Merciless King - Sherilee Gray - 1st ed
  
  CONTENTS
  About Merciless King
  Follow Me!
  Also by Sherilee Gray
  Prologue
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Cha