The Master: An Adventure Story

The Master

First edition (UK)
Author T. H. White
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Science fiction
Publisher   Jonathan Cape (UK)
  G. P. Putnam's Sons (US)
Publication date
1957
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 256
OCLC 504128135
LC Class PZ3.W5854 Mas2 FT MEADE

The Master: An Adventure Story is a 1957 science-fiction adventure novel by English author T. H. White.

Plot summary

It involves two children, Judy and Nicky, and their dog Jokey, who are stranded on Rockall, an extremely small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. They find that it is hollow and inhabited by a mysterious person who aims to take over the world.

Rockall actually exists, though the persons depicted in the book are entirely fictional.

Characters

The captives' family

The captors' team

Major themes

Like White's better-known work, The Once and Future King (1958), The Master deals with moral questions of killing, war and peace, and response to evil.

Allusions

References to other works

"Dr. Moreau," Mr. Frinton went on, "was experimenting on his island and the Iron Pirate was at sea and She was living her immortal life in Africa when the Master was about ninety. Stevenson wrote Treasure Island when he was eighty-four. Captain Nemo was sailing in the Nautilus when he was seventy. Henry Russell Wallace [sic] thought of the origin of species when he was around sixty. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when he was coming of age, and at the battle of Waterloo he was four years older than you are."[1]

References to actual history, geography and current science

Television adaptation

In 1966, Southern Television made a six-part television dramatization starring Adrienne Posta and Paul Guess, with Olaf Pooley as the Master.

See also

Footnotes

  1. p. 134.
  2. pp. 1718.
  3. p. 141.

External links

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