Name: sword at sunset
SKU: 1986806
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Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
ISBN: 9781556527593

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rosemary Sutcliff

Preface by

Jack Whyte

Publisher

Chicago Review Press

Language

English

Pages

495

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x14.3x2.5 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN

1556527594

ISBN13

9781556527593

Synopsis "sword at sunset"

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.

Rosemary Sutcliff

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He traveled a lot in his childhood due to his father's status as a navy officer. An illness resulted in him living in a wheelchair for almost his entire life. He studied Art at Bideford school, and dedicated himself to painting miniatures until he began writing in 1950.

He wrote children's novels, adventure stories, biographies, and primarily historical fiction novels, characterized by their meticulous writing and high literary quality, with much delicacy and lyricism.

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