The Crystal Cave (Merlin, #1)
by:
Mary Stewart (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780340151334 (0340151331)
Publish date: 1983
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Series: Arthurian Saga -3 (#1)
by Mary Stewart With the recent death of Mary Stewart, I decided it was time to read her Merlin trilogy which had been on my radar for a long time. This is the first book which tells the story of Merlin's life from childhood to the point where the future King Arthur is conceived. First off, the ...
I don't remember anything about this, except what happens to Merlin, which may not even be part of this book.****1994 Jul 16It's been at least thirty years since I read this. Since then I've read a great many retellings of the Arthurian legend, which I don't think would have come if not for this. Ma...
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart Book 1 of Arthurian Saga The first three books of the Arthurian Saga is also known as The Merlin Trilogy. This series is being read as part of a Buddy Read @ BookLikes. See Also: Week One Update | Week Two Update Book III: The Wolf Progress on 11/16/16: 33...
Series: Arthurian Saga #1 Completely unmemorable. The old man telling the child and then the young man’s story sounded stale to me. Merlin seemed to be more of a sock puppet than a person. I didn’t really care about anyone in the story, and most of the dialogue rang false, somehow. The prose w...
(Note: the page number is for the trilogy's omnibus edition, which is the book I'm actually reading.) "Thanks" to having contracted some sort of cold or flu bug and having been out of commission for pretty much all other purposes over the weekend, I've progressed fairly well with this book -- well...
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