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.

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

References to actual history, geography and current science

Television adaptation

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

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