Bibliograph

The winter king, a novel of Arthur, Bernard Cornwell

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The winter king, a novel of Arthur, Bernard Cornwell

Language

eng

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The winter king

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

861522802

Responsibility statement

Bernard Cornwell

Series statement

The warlord chronicles, 1

Sub title

a novel of Arthur

Summary

It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur .The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant. As Arthur fights to keep a flicker of civilization alive in a barbaric world, Bernard Cornwell makes a familiar tale into a legend all over again

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