Arthur: The Seeing Stone: Arthur
Autor Kevin Crossley-Hollanden Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2001
In a hundred short chapters that seem like snapshots of the past, The Seeing Stone brilliantly evokes the earthy, uncomfortable reality of daily life in the Middle Ages, and of a whole community - from Gatty the reeve's daughter to Tanwen the chamber-servant, from Oliver the priest to Lady Alice, keeper of a terrible secret - facing the conflicts and uncertainties of a new century.
The Seeing Stone is the first volume in the Arthur trilogy.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0752844296
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 2 Maps
Dimensiuni: 129 x 200 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Hachette Children's Group
Seriile Arthur, Waterstones Reading the 21st Century
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Descriere
Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001, this timeless novel is stunningly reissued for a new generation. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches.
Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . .
. "As bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound." - Philip Pullman, The Guardian
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"...a dramatic conlusion to what has been a wonderfully inventive perspective on Arthurian legend...full of contemporary relevance."
"With King of the Middle March, Kevin Crossley-Holland triumphantly concludes his trilogy about the two Arthurs...Arthur's breathless diary entries have an immediacy and wonder"
"...conjures up a vivid picture of medieval life combined with the magic of Arthurian legends."
"The trilogy is an ambitious and brilliantly realised work, which informs and astounds."
"...the multi-layered conclusion to a most original trilogy...The style is distinctive; short, kaleidoscopic chapters marked by uncluttered, precise sentences. Legend and historical fact are subtly intertwined to make an exciting medieval adventure relevant to today's conflicts and beliefs."
"If you like a good historical saga then you've probably already read The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing-Places, the first two-thirds of Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur Trilogy. King of the Middle March weighs in at 432 pages and is a fairly chunky read...At times funny, at times magical and at times dark, King of the Middle March more than repays the effort"
"Crossley-Holland is, of course, a poet, and the simplicity, musicality and laconic directness of his writing reflects this."
The trilogy is an ambitious and brilliantly realised work, which informs and astounds. -- Joanne Owen, Borders Bookshop Bookseller Buyer's Guide Highlight, 11 June 2003 "'the multi-layered conclusion to a most original trilogy'The style is distinctive; short, kaleidoscopic chapters marked by uncluttered, precise sentences. Legend and historical fact are subtly intertwined to make an exciting medieval adventure relevant to today's conflicts and beliefs." -- Lesley Agnew The Bookseller, 25 July 2003 "If you like a good historical saga then you've probably already read The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing-Places, the first two-thirds of Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur Trilogy. King of the Middle March weighs in at 432 pages and is a fairly chunky read...At times funny, at times magical and at times dark, King of the Middle March more than repays the effort" -- John Crace Guardian Children's Books Supplement, Autumn 2003 "Crossley-Holland is, of course, a poet, and the simplicity, musicality and laconic directness of his writing reflects this." The Independent, 31 October 2003 "'a dramatic conlusion to what has been a wonderfully inventive perspective on Arthurian legend'full of contemporary relevance." Hampstead & Highgate Express, 31 Oct 03 "With King of the Middle March, Kevin Crossley-Holland triumphantly concludes his trilogy about the two Arthurs'Arthur's breathless diary entries have an immediacy and wonder" -- Jan Mark Times Educational Supplement, 14 Nov 03 "'conjures up a vivid picture of medieval life combined with the magic of Arthurian legends." Financial Times, 29 November 2003 "King of the Middle March makes a fitting elegiac end to a remarkably grown-up sequence." Guardian, 29 November 2003