 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The King Arthur Trilogy: "Sword and the Circle", "Light Beyond the Forest", "Road to Camlann" for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Book Description
King Arthur Stories: 1. The Sword and the Circle 2. The Light Beyond the Forest 3. The Road to Camlann
Product Description
The legends of King Arthur and his knights have passed down throught the generations sinced medieval times. In this spellbinding trilogy, Rosemary Sutcliff recreates all the mystique and mystery of the golden age of Camelot for a new generation.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is three books in one: The Sword and the Circle, The Light Beyond the Forest and The Road to Camlann.
It's Sutcliff writing, so you can't really go wrong here, as she is a great and learned author of numerous books and tales, mostly historical fiction, that bring the past to life. 'Eagle of The Ninth' is a young adult book (and beyond) that famously and brilliantly brings to life Roman Britain. She doesn't use the same style here, which is a shame....
So just be warned that this book is really for fans of King Arthur tales, who are already familiar with the traditional versions from other books, and wish to see them re-emphasised and embellished here by an accomplished author. Replaced even.
However, Sutcliff has chosen again the old style of Tale-writing to re-visit them, and this serves both to re-awaken the old power of old narrative, but also to restrict them, emotionally and from a more cynical modern perspective.
So, you won't find any The Mists of Avalon (Ballantine Reader's Circle) here, where the writing is empathic, descriptive and very engaging, but you will find the bedtime story element is accessible. Also, the content follows a similar trend in the developments at court and ultimately towards the last Battle. However, there is no big explanation of how christian values work alongside Merlin's magical ones. We just have to accept the casual facts in the myths.
It's still a first-rate involvement with the heroic, mythical past and all the chivalrous values that give them strength. Some of the tales are expertly re-counted.
The weaker book is the middle one, where the magical or spiritual Grail aspects get a bit far-fetched and tiring, even for bedtime stories....
But where each of the tales of all the Knights are told, the final book leaves out none of them, covering all the bases to leave us moved by the re-telling and illuminated again.
We also sense that Sir Lancelot is really the tragic hero of this book, and Sutcliff's fave.
It's Sutcliff writing, so you can't really go wrong here, as she is a great and learned author of numerous books and tales, mostly historical fiction, that bring the past to life. 'Eagle of The Ninth' is a young adult book (and beyond) that famously and brilliantly brings to life Roman Britain. She doesn't use the same style here, which is a shame....
So just be warned that this book is really for fans of King Arthur tales, who are already familiar with the traditional versions from other books, and wish to see them re-emphasised and embellished here by an accomplished author. Replaced even.
However, Sutcliff has chosen again the old style of Tale-writing to re-visit them, and this serves both to re-awaken the old power of old narrative, but also to restrict them, emotionally and from a more cynical modern perspective.
So, you won't find any The Mists of Avalon (Ballantine Reader's Circle) here, where the writing is empathic, descriptive and very engaging, but you will find the bedtime story element is accessible. Also, the content follows a similar trend in the developments at court and ultimately towards the last Battle. However, there is no big explanation of how christian values work alongside Merlin's magical ones. We just have to accept the casual facts in the myths.
It's still a first-rate involvement with the heroic, mythical past and all the chivalrous values that give them strength. Some of the tales are expertly re-counted.
The weaker book is the middle one, where the magical or spiritual Grail aspects get a bit far-fetched and tiring, even for bedtime stories....
But where each of the tales of all the Knights are told, the final book leaves out none of them, covering all the bases to leave us moved by the re-telling and illuminated again.
We also sense that Sir Lancelot is really the tragic hero of this book, and Sutcliff's fave.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
These two books were bought for my grandsons, nine and eleven years old. They wanted a "good read". As a child I always enjoyed King Arthur and The Gauntlet which I read when I was about their age. I particularly loved The Gauntlet and have always remembered it and was highly delighted when I saw that it was still published. The youngest one is reading his at school and although there are over six hundred pages in the book he is plodding on steadily. He keeps reminding me of this fact when I ask him if he has finished it yet.
Very pleased with this transaction.
Very pleased with this transaction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After reading her foray into Arthurian legend in The Lantern Bearers (part of The Eagle Of The Ninth series), I was very much looking forward to this. Sadly, instead of the innovative approach she took in The Lantern Bearers, this is a competent but very traditional Tennyson based version of the legends. Good enough Sutcliffe is far too good an author to churn out rubbish) but not what I was hoping for. I'm going back to The Eagle Of The Ninth series, far too good to languish in the ghetto of children's literature. (Oh, by the way, avoid the film like the plague, it misses all the subleties of the book, and thus the whole point of it.)
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192198663_.gif){kind=small}
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
