Sword at Sunset
Rosemary Sutcliff
512 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0812588525
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Language: English
Publish: March 15, 1987
ArthurianChildrensClassicsFantasyFictionHistoricalHistorical FantasyHistorical FictionMythologyYoung Adult
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 richly earned its reputation as a classic.