Disney's film adapts The Sword in the Stone (1938), the first part of White's sequence: the Wart's education by Merlin, his transformations into a fish, a squirrel and a bird, the wizards' duel with Madam Mim, and the drawing of the sword.
BookSeries· 1938· Fantasy
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
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White's sequence is a retelling of Malory from the boyhood of Arthur to the last night before the final battle. He names Le Morte d'Arthur in his own text and brings Malory himself on as a character at the end, as the boy Arthur sends away to carry the story on.