Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780394524061
ISBN: 0394524063
Label: Alfred a Knopf
Manufacturer: Alfred a Knopf
Number Of Pages: 876
Publication Date: 1982-12
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
Studio: Alfred a Knopf

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Rating: - great story, not so well written
i just have to add a quick badly written review, as reading through the more negetive comments it seems most of those people think it's boring, slow but well written. i'd have to disagree on all counts.

i still have really fond memories of this book after reading it twice 10 or so years ago. a wonderful dark trajedy. yes it's depressing, but it is a trajedy, that's it's beauty.

one thing though, my wife (who has a far better grasp of literarture than i do) read it once ... Read More

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Rating: - Stunning
This book moved me more than I can say. I didn't want it ever to end. It has changed the way I look at nature, encouraging me to pay more attention and respect to the wonderful natural things in our world.

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Rating: - An enriching feminine perspective of the Arthurian Legends
Now a well known part of the fantasy and legends canon it seems, I'm glad I finally got round to reading this engrossing book.

Essential for anyone moved by the tragic but eternal Arthurian saga, this one has less cinematic description (as in the old simple tales), but all the deeper emotion and intrigue of the court and some thrilling tensions between characters. All this is deftly handled through the wisdom and skill of the author, who succeeds in covering the whole period.
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Rating: - the best authurian legend book.
This has got to be the best authurian book ever, full of magic and atmosphere, thrilling and other worldly, quite hard to get into, but once you are there, you very definitely are in another world Camelot and avalon.

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Rating: - First Book in What became a Wonderful Series

Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. Writing for over 4 decades, she is best known for her Darkover science fantasy series and her Avalon series. She also edited anthologies for 14 years and published Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine.

She died in ... Read More

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