Name: the winter king
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Author: Bernard Cornwell
ISBN: 9780312156961

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernard Cornwell

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1x15.2x3.3 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN

0312156960

ISBN13

9780312156961

Edition No.

0003

Synopsis "the winter king"

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 with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant. As Arthur fights to keep a flicker of civilization alive in a barbaric world, Bernard Cornwell makes a familiar tale into a legend all over again.

Bernard Cornwell

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Bernard Cornwell (Londres, 1944) es un prolífico autor británico de novela histórica, famoso por sagas como las de Richard Sharpe (Guerras Napoleónicas) y las "Saxon Stories" (Unificación de Inglaterra), que se publicaron en EE. UU. tras mudarse allí por su esposa americana y no poder trabajar, comenzando a escribir novelas históricas como forma de ganarse la vida legalmente, combinando gran documentación con entretenimiento y dando lugar a adaptaciones televisivas como The Last Kingdom.

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