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Sword at sunset. [A novel about King Arthur. With a map.]

This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war - and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the braiding of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imagination and hypnotic narrative skill comes a novel that has r.

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  • "This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war - and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the braiding of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imagination and hypnotic narrative skill comes a novel that has r."@en
  • "For fourteen centuries, the story of Arthur was a legend misted over by the tradition of romantic hero tales. But Arthur was real, a man of towering strength, a dreamer, and a warrior who actually lived, fought and died for his impossible dream. In Sutcliff's now legendary retelling King Arthur is brought passionately to life."
  • "This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan, early Christian, and medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells the authentic story of the man who may well have been the real King Arthur-Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Presenting early Britain as it was after the departure of the Romans-no Round Table, no many-towered Camelot-the setting is a hard, savage land, half-civilized, half-pagan, where a few men struggled to forge a nation and hold."@en
  • ""This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war?and tender and tragically tormented in love"--Publisher description."@en
  • "In this historical novel King Arthur is shorn of his romantic trappings and seen as the man he must have been."@en
  • "For fourteen centuries the story of Arthur was a legend misted over by the tradition of romantic hero-tales. But he was real, a man of towering strength, a dreamer and a warrior, who actually lived, and fought, and died for his impossible dream."@en
  • "A re-creation of the story of King Arthur, stripped of its medieval chivalric embellishments and based upon myth, legend, and modern archeological findings."@en
  • "A re-creation of the story of King Arthur, stripped of its medieval chivalric embellishments and based upon myth, legend, and modern archeological findings."
  • "This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan, early Christian, and medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells the authentic story of the man who may well have been the real King Arthur--Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Presenting early Britain as it was after the departure of the Romans--no Round Table, no many-towered Camelot--the setting is a hard, savage land, half-civilized, half-pagan, where a few men struggled to forge a nation and hold back the Saxon scourge. Richly detailed, the story chronicles the formation of a great army, the hardships of winter quarters, the primitive wedding feasts, the pagan fertility rites, the agonies of surgery after battle, the thrilling stag hunts, and the glorious processions of the era. Stripped of the chivalric embellishments that the French applied to British history centuries ago, the Arthurian age here emerges as a time when men stood at the precipice of history--a time of transition and changing values and imminent national peril."@en
  • "This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan, early Christian, and medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells the authentic story of the man who may well have been the real King ArthurArtos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Presenting early Britain as it was after the departure of the Romansno Round Table, no many-towered Camelotthe setting is a hard, savage land, half-civilized, half-pagan, where a few men struggled to forge a nation and hold back the Saxon scourge. Richly detailed, the story chronicles the formation of a great army, the hardships of winter quarters, the primitive wedding feasts, the pagan fertility rites, the agonies of surgery after battle, the thrilling stag hunts, and the glorious processions of the era. Stripped of the chivalric embellishments that the French applied to British history centuries ago, the Arthurian age here emerges as a time when men stood at the precipice of historya time of transition and changing values and imminent national peril."@en
  • "Interweaving ancient legend and Celtic history, this novel chronicles the life of King Arthur--a man of towering strength, a dreamer, and a warrior--who lived, fought, and died for his impossible dream."@en

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  • "Adaptations"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Arthurian romances"
  • "Downloadable IPG ebooks"@en
  • "Fantasy"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Adaptations"

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  • "Sword at sunset. [A novel about King Arthur. With a map.]"@en
  • "Sword at Sunset"@en
  • "Sword at sunset. Original illustrations by John Vernon Lord"@en
  • "Una espada al atardecer"@es
  • "Taeyangeui jeonsa"
  • "Zwaard des konings"
  • "Miekka ja auringonlasku"@fi
  • "Sword at sunset ... Abridged by J.P. Harries"@en
  • "Le Glaive au crépuscule"
  • "Sword and sunset"@en
  • "Sword at sunset"
  • "Sword at sunset"@en

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