- Adaptations, Arthurian romances, Britons, Fiction
Dark Ages. Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by dreams of the magical sword Caliburn, which has been hidden for centuries. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny is at hand, and Arthur must claim the fabled sword to become the true High King of Britain.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Mary Stewart, Mary Stewart
- First published
- September 12, 1978
- Pages
- 475
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company, Chivers Audio Books, Chivers Press
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780745140520
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“There was a lark singing somewhere high above.”
Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, England, the United Kingdom. She graduated from Durham University, from where she received an honorary D.Litt in 2009. She was a lecturer in English Language and Literature there until her marriage in 1945 to Sir Frederick Stewart, former chairman of the Geology Department of Edinburgh University, who died in 2001. Lady Mary Stewart was author of twenty novels, a volume of poetry, and three books for young readers, she is admired for both her contemporary stories of romantic suspense and her historical novels. Her finest and most original achievement was Merlin Trilogy, an Arthurian saga: The Crystal Cave (1970), The H
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