

In 2014, The Sword in the Stone was awarded a retrospective Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1939. Time included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Walt Disney Productions adapted the story to an animated film, and the BBC adapted it to radio. A fantasy of the boyhood of King Arthur (in the story an orphan named Wart who draws the sword from a stone to discover his true identity), it is a sui generis work which combines elements of legend, history, fantasy and comedy.

First published by Collins in the United Kingdom as a stand-alone work, it later became the first part of a tetralogy, The Once and Future King. The Sword in the Stone is a 1938 novel by British writer T.

Story of Arthur and The Sword in the Stone
