The Crimson Chalice vs The Once and Future King: Which Should You Read?

The Crimson Chalice Victor Canning · 1976 179 pages · ≈ 3 h 19 m · Moderate

When a party of marauding Saxons destroy her father's villa, young Roman girl Gratia, 'Tia' escapes. She comes upon the body of the heir to the chieftanship of a British tribe in the west. Baradoc, a prisoner of…

The Once and Future King T. H. White · 1939 ★★★★☆ 3.9 677 pages · ≈ 12 h 32 m · Challenging

“ON Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.”

T. H. White's modern classic about King Arthur. This particular edition may have been published in Russia, but it is in fact written in English. I just finished reading this edition on the Open Library. I wonder why it…