- Fiction, Kings and rulers, Britons, Arthurian romances
Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles to unite Britain and hold back the Saxon enemy, Arthur is embroiled in a doomed romance with beautiful Guinevere.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Bernard Cornwell
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 434
- Publisher
- Penguin Group UK, Thorndike Press, Mondadori
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780718137625
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“ONCE UPON A TIME, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened.”
Bernard Cornwell (born February 23, 1944) is an English author of historical novels, known for his meticulous research and engaging storytelling. Born in London, England, to a Canadian airman father and a mother in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, he was adopted by a family in Essex belonging to the Peculiar People sect. Cornwell attended London University and worked as a teacher before joining the BBC, where he spent a decade, eventually becoming Head of Current Affairs in Northern Ireland. Bernard Cornwell is renowned for his long-running series of novels, including the *Sharpe* series about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe, the *Saxon Stories* (also known as *The Last Kingdom* seri
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