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Pub. Date
2013
Description
The first publication of a previously unknown narrative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. Tolkien's only venture into the legends of Arthur, this may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, where he brings to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful...
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Series
Guenevere trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A novel of Guenevere, wife of King Arthur, portraying her as the power behind the throne. The book chronicles their fiery relationship, their efforts at keeping Britain united and their respective extra-marital affairs, he with his half-sister, Morgan, she with Lancelot. By the author of I, Elizabeth.
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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In Constantinople on a trip to the Holy Land, where her Scottish family has battled Saracen invaders for two generations, Celtic beauty CaitrŁona is desolate when her father is stabbed to death in the crowded cathedral of Ayia Sophia by unscrupulous Templar Renaud de Bracineaux.
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Series
Camulod chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king. But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome or struggling to create a last stronghold against...
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Series
Tristan and Isolde novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Continues the story of Isolde, queen of Ireland, and her unhappy marriage to Cornwall's King Mark, uncle of her beloved Tristan.
Author
Series
Tristan and Isolde novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Isolde, a healer, falls instantly in love when she is called upon to secretly treat Sir Tristan of Lyonesse, who was injured in battle against her Queen mother's troops, but the young lovers find themselves caught in the crosscurrents of fate when Isolde is promised in marriage to Tristan's uncle, the King of Cornwall.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 28
Description
"367 A.D. The empire is falling. The legions of Rome are in retreat. The green and pleasant lands of Britain have become a dark and deadly killing ground. It is a time that breeds treachery in some men and greatness in others."--BOOK JACKET. "This is the rich and rousing story of Gaius Publius Varrus, one of the finest soldiers ever to fight under the eagles of Rome. He is among the first to see the truth, that Britain must fend for itself in an increasingly...
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Series
Arthurian trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Retells the adventures of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, Sir Lancelot, and the other knights of the Round Table.
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