It is 1199 and young Arthur de Caldicot is waiting impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining piece of obsidian and his life becomes entwined with that of his namesake, the Arthur whose story he sees unfold in the stone. In this many-layered novel, King Arthur is seen as a mysterious presence influencing not just one time and place but many. The 100 short chapters are almost like snapshots not only of the mythic tales of King Arthur, but the earthy, uncomfortable reality of the Middle Ages.
La Trilogia di Artù Serie
Questa epica trilogia segue il viaggio di un giovane verso la cavalleria e l'avventura nel mezzo della Quarta Crociata. Il suo destino si intreccia con quello del leggendario Re Artù e dei Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda, rispecchiandosi nelle sue visioni e nei suoi sogni. Una magistrale fusione di ambientazioni storiche e folklore arturiano offre un'avvincente esplorazione di identità, onore e scopo. La serie unisce brillantemente la realtà medievale al mito duraturo.
Ordine di lettura consigliato
In late twelfth-century England, the thirteen-year-old Arthur goes to begin his new life as squire to Lord Stephen at Holt, where crusaders ready themselves. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary
Arthur : King of the Middle March
- 416pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
Arthur de Caldicot, on his way to becoming a man, witnesses the horrors of the Fourth Crusade in Venice and Zara, as well as the downfall of King Arthur's court, in his seeing stone