I had not read these, so I found the copy in the best condition and waited in line. Scott Fitzgerald or the first three Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs), was an omnibus of Howard Pyle’s King Arthur novels. There, among the Barnes & Noble classics and omnibuses of public domain literature (like Edgar Allan Poe’s work or the early work of F. I wandered aimlessly for fifteen minutes, which was all the time I’d allotted for the stop, and then I made one last pass of the bargain book racks at the front. I made a stop in Pikesville, though - I dropped by the Barnes & Noble there as I’d not been to a Barnes & Noble since September, not since the day I went to the Maryland Renaissance Festival with some friends from northern Virginia. The office closed early on Christmas Eve, and I took advantage of the early closing to drive down to North Carolina for the holiday. Deadlines, Christmas, and deadlines compressed by Christmas conspired against me to write this on a timelier basis, and by this point I suspect that most listener’s attentions have turned to BBC Radio 4’s just-finished adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens or the forthcoming adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace starring John Hurt, but this is still worth writing. White’s The Once and Future King for BBC Radio 4. At long last, we return to the series on Brian Sibley’s adaptation of T.H.
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