The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1)
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Number of Pages: 433
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312156960
ISBN-13: 9780312156961
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 h...