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2) Mad Merlin
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In the tradition of The Mists of Avalon and Mythago Wood, J. Robert King weaves an epic tale of Avalon, Excalibur, the Once and Future king, and the magician Merlin as he draws on the ideas and writings of Joseph Campbell to shape and interpret the legendary Arthurian mythos.
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King Arthur series (Howard Pyle) volume 2
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English
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Three of King Arthur's most beloved knights, Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram and Sir Percival, headline their own fantastical tales of love, honor and inescapable duty. The Story of the Champions of the Round Table offers an intimate look at the many obstacles and triumphs of the famous warriors.
Sir Launcelot, the first knight of the round table, is a prominent fixture who appears alongside King Arthur on various quests. He becomes a legend in his own...
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The works of Mark Twain volume 9
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Published for the Iowa Center for Textual Studies by the University of California Press
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1979.
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xvii, 827 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Warlord chronicles volume 1
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English
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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...
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This is a lively and absorbing account of the world of Celtic myth and the role it has played in the development of western culture. Included here are:The world of the Celts, including an historical overview from their emergence as an identifiable people around 1000 B. C. Also included is an exploration of their social structure. The contents of Celtic myths and the differences and similarities between their manifestation in Britain and Ireland. The...
11) Chivalry
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Chivalry (1909) is a fascinating collection of tales that draw inspiration from the popular chronicles of medieval Europe. Author James Branch Cabell immerses his reader into this distant world, masking his authorship in order to ensure a fluidity of form and content that injects his work of high fantasy with a sense of truth.
Intentionally layered in mystery and claims of authenticity, Chivalry purports to be a copy made by royal scribe Colard Mansion...
13) Sword at sunset
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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...
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*The classic tale that inspired the A24-movie The Green Knight starring Dev Patel!*
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight stands as one of the earliest literary memories of Medieval England, King Arthur and his Round Table, the mythical Camelot, and those knights who called it home.
In this classic tale of chivalry and adventure, a mysterious figure interrupts a New Year's Eve celebration. Dressed all in green, he challenges King Arthur to a dangerous...
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"Collum, a brilliantly gifted young knight from the provinces, arrives at Camelot two weeks after the Battle of Camlann, hoping to compete for a spot on the Round Table. But he finds the city empty, King Arthur dead, and the Table destroyed. The remaining six knights aren't the mighty heroes, the legends, like Lancelot and Gawain and Tristram and Galahad. These are the survivors, a grab-bag of minor oddball knights from the margins--Sir Palomides,...
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Mad Merlin told the story from a god's point of view.
Lancelot Du Lether told the story from a lover's point of view.
Now in the third volume of J. Robert King's critically acclaimed Arthurian triptych focuses on a woman of Avalon--Morgan le Fey.
Part female Hamlet, part mystical Lady Macbeth, this daughter of a slain king must become an Arthurian Joan of Arc for all women when her position in society and royal lineage place her in direct opposition...
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He had always felt that Twyll should have been the Captain of the Koteli.
Twyll was empathetic, resourceful, patient, good-humored, and the men listened to him. He was everything Maddau was not. AND he was a better swordsman, too!
But his fate, indeed the fate of all the Koteli, was set from the first day they received their charge, and confirmed when they answered the Call. Now, when the hour has arrived to pay the dues set forth in contracts...
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Every Myth Has A Hero Aaron Annwyn is a student in his final year at a Welsh Grammar School, when he accidentally trips through a portal to King Arthur's Britain. In order to continue his time shifting, he must solve complex problems and overcome adversity. He leads a double life, split between the medieval world of knights and battles and his present-day family and friends. He falls in love with the beautiful but doomed Dindraney, and becomes intricately...
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