- Hardcover: 815 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670871621
- ISBN-13: 978-0670871629
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,971,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A series that promises to provide historic plausibility to the legend of King Arthur...the best of its type in the near quarter of a century since Mary Stewart's version of these legends burst upon the publishing scene."--"The Chattanooga Times"
"Perhaps not since the early 1970s, with Mary Stewart's "The Crystal Cave" and "The Hollow Hills", have the Roman Empire and the Arthurian legends been intertwined with as much skill and authenticity."--"Publishers Weekly" on "The Skystone" (starred review)
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
"Perhaps not since the early 1970s, with Mary Stewart's "The Crystal Cave" and "The Hollow Hills", have the Roman Empire and the Arthurian legends been intertwined with as much skill and authenticity."--"Publishers Weekly" on "The Skystone" (starred review)
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Fans of Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, an authentic retelling of the Arthurian legend as it actually may have happened, have enjoyed watching the story of Camelot evolve through the eyes of Merlyn - witnessing firsthand Merlyn's role in shaping the boy who would be king. But there has been a part of the story that readers have been denied. With UTHER, Jack Whyte provides a portrait of Merlyn's shadow - his boyhood companion and closest friend, the man who would sire the King of the Britons. From the trials of boyhood to the new cloak of adult responsibility, we see Uther with fresh eyes. He will travel the length of the land, have adventures and through fate or tragedy, fall in love with the one woman he must not have. UTHER is a compelling love story and, like the other books in the Camulod Chronicles, a version of the legend that is more realistic than anything readers have seen before.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Having read all of the previous Camulod Chronicles I was looking forward to reading this 'stand alone' book about Uther. As the previous books are all written in the first person you only ever get the perspective of the narrator and I had been vaguely disappointed that we never really got to know Uther. Unfortunately I still feel like I did not get to know him. This book is no where near as good as the rest and there are several discrepancies in characters and timelines. The book alternates between trying to give too much detail about events that have happened in previous books to not enough detail. The details of the incident with Cassandra are barely mentioned in this book and yet they are incredibly important to the whole Uther/Merlyn story.
All in all this has been an entertaining enough read but seemed a bit hurried and superficial.
All in all this has been an entertaining enough read but seemed a bit hurried and superficial.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Having now read all the Camalodian Chronicles, I think the complete story is very good, the historical fact is excellent, BUT, the sex is too graphic and too much, (almostt a Hong Kong Bible), no need for that much detail, and much to much detail, detracts from the story.
Afraid on that basis, I won't be buying anymore of Jack Whytes books.
Afraid on that basis, I won't be buying anymore of Jack Whytes books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Jack Whyte was born and raised in Scotland, but has lived in Canada for the last forty odd years. He is the author of the Camulod series of books and has just had published the first in a trilogy about probably the most famous Order of knights, ever to come through the pages of history, the Knights Templar.
This is the seventh volume in the continuation of the Camulod Chronicles a series of novels about the Arthurian legends. But anyone expecting the conventional, or Hollywood slant on the legend of Arthur, i.e. knights riding around on destriers in full body armour, something invented several hundred years after Arthur had gone to his grave, if he ever existed at all, will be in for a sharp shock.
The books are set in the 5th century AD a much more likely time for Arthur to have existed, a time when Britain, although free of the Romans, who had gone back across the channel to Rome, was still very much influenced by their occupation.
Granted Jack Whyte's version of the Arthurian legends does not sit well with everybody, but if you forget what you have read before about Arthur and after all that is only information published earlier by Sir Thomas Mallory and has very little credibility in historical terms, and treat the books on their own merits then many will find them not only readable, but also enjoyable.
This book is about Uther the boyhood companion of Merlyn and the man who will eventually father, Arthur, a boy who grows to become the High king of Britain. Uther and Merlyn have been together since childhood. Caius Merlyn Britannicus, a man who has grown to be leader of the colony and Uther, a tireless warrior. So different in many ways but bound together with ties as strong as iron.
This is the seventh volume in the continuation of the Camulod Chronicles a series of novels about the Arthurian legends. But anyone expecting the conventional, or Hollywood slant on the legend of Arthur, i.e. knights riding around on destriers in full body armour, something invented several hundred years after Arthur had gone to his grave, if he ever existed at all, will be in for a sharp shock.
The books are set in the 5th century AD a much more likely time for Arthur to have existed, a time when Britain, although free of the Romans, who had gone back across the channel to Rome, was still very much influenced by their occupation.
Granted Jack Whyte's version of the Arthurian legends does not sit well with everybody, but if you forget what you have read before about Arthur and after all that is only information published earlier by Sir Thomas Mallory and has very little credibility in historical terms, and treat the books on their own merits then many will find them not only readable, but also enjoyable.
This book is about Uther the boyhood companion of Merlyn and the man who will eventually father, Arthur, a boy who grows to become the High king of Britain. Uther and Merlyn have been together since childhood. Caius Merlyn Britannicus, a man who has grown to be leader of the colony and Uther, a tireless warrior. So different in many ways but bound together with ties as strong as iron.
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Uther, from the Camulod Chronicles
Another in the Camulod series about The Arthurian legend (this is such a great series), but coming from a different angle than the other 8 books. Read more
Published 2 months ago by P. A. Cunningham
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This was perhaps the most difficult of the Camulod books to read, as we knew the events from another perspective...and for myself were sympathetic to that view. Read more
Published 8 months ago by petro
The legend of Camelot continues
This is just another version of how Arthur came about. The story itself, is interesting and appealing but it tends to divert into areas that it needn't touch. Read more
Published on 7 July 2002
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