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| Original Title: | The Crystal Cave |
| ISBN: | 0060548258 (ISBN13: 9780060548254) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Arthurian Saga #1 |
| Characters: | Niniane, Merlin, Uther Pendragon, Ralf, Aurelius Ambrosius, Vortigern, Galapas, Cadal, Ygraine, Ulfin |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
| Literary Awards: | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (1971) |
Mary Stewart
Paperback | Pages: 494 pages Rating: 4.13 | 40950 Users | 1616 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga #1) |
| Author | : | Mary Stewart |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 494 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2003 by Eos (first published January 1st 1970) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mythology. Arthurian. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses a great natural gift - the Sight. Against a background of invasion and imprisonment, wars and conquest, Merlin emerges into manhood, and accepts his dramatic role in the New Beginning - the coming of King Arthur.Rating Out Of Books The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga #1)
Ratings: 4.13 From 40950 Users | 1616 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga #1)
This was a reread for me. It didn't quite thrill me as much as it did the first time I read it but I still think it rates a 5.I love Mary Stewarts take on the Arthurian tale in this series, especially this opening book where she she begins with Merlin as a child and draws out the history through him. Stewart has taken some liberties and added her own special twist to the story which, to me, brings a unique viewpoint to the legend. Enter the pages of this series and discover the true creator ofIn the early Dark Ages Britain has fragmented into a number of kingdoms and tribal entities, as the island struggles to resist invasions by the Saxon tribes from Germany which are slowly colonizing south-east England and in the west marauders from Ireland.The fatherless son of the Welsh princess Niniane, Myrriden Emrys - better known as Merlin faces a perilous and unwanted and dangerous childhood and on the death of his grandfather the king of Dyfed must flee for his life from the murderous
From time to time I have read lot of modern works based on the history of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, but all in the end all left me somewhat unsatisfied. T.H. White's classic version is very light, the very popular version of Marion Zimmer Bradley seemed to me too much New Age for my tastes, while the most recent of Bernard Cornwell is just a very... Cornwellish. So since I read these versions I was looking for something that would please me more. If I found it in what Mary
This was done so beautifully yet holding such immense intelligence cognition/ definition that I will think about this for some long hours as I write this. It's a composite of a man who was a poet, priest, scholar, engineer, doctor, sometimes Prince, and wholly too a massive and ultimate manipulator. Merlin is done here to his humanity as much as to his wizardry. The language skills and descriptive sense of surroundings to grasp the internal meanings are fully poetic. Sometimes expressed in
The Crystal Cave, book1, Arthurian Novels.A fantasy story of King Arthur and Merlin. Absolutely wonderful. A fascinating read. Made all the more intriguing because it 'reads' as historical fiction. This was my first 'fantasy' read. I expected looseness of writing and a plot that wobbled. This despite the great reviews I had read. And that Mary Stewart is the author.jBTW Mary Stewart based her characters on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain. Which she asserts is not held in
3.5 I struggled a bit on how to rate this even though I think Mary Stewart is an amazing storyteller. This is the first in the Arthurian Saga series, told from the perspective of Merlin from the age of a young boy into early adulthood. I was really taken in by the story of Merlin himself and the people he encountered. I liked learning about the humanity of his character and what his magic was really about, and reading about the mystery behind his father. Some of the parts on war and politics
Exquisite tale, exceptionally well written, very suspenseful and pretty close to the legend. It probably inspired the best Merlin series - the Sam Neill one and the BBC (Young) Merlin.However, one star out for the occasional (thank goodness: one or two more would have ruined the book!) anticlerical, antiChristian and also historically false remarks (e.g. it is very well known to everyone who reads history the fact that, contrary to misconception and propaganda, Christian Church was not against
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