The Seeing Stone - Couverture souple

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0439263271 ISBN 13 : 9780439263276

Editeur : Scholastic Paperbacks, 2002

Synopsis

Arthurian legend comes to life in the first novel in this remarkable, award-winning saga

Thirteen-year-old Arthur de Caldicot lives on a manor, desperately waiting for the moment he can become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone - a seeing stone - that shows him visions of his namesake, King Arthur. The legendary dragons, battles, and swordplay that young Arthur witnesses seem a world away from his own life. And yet there is something definitely joining the Arthurs together.
It will be Arthur de Caldicot's destiny to discover how his path is intertwined with a king's . . . for the past is not the only thing the seeing stone can see.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Set in the Welsh Marches in the year 1199, The Seeing Stone is a uniquely contemporary take on the Arthurian legends. It is an enthralling story of secrets and mysteries in the life of young Arthur de Caldicot, who discovers his namesake, the boy King Arthur, in his seeing stone.

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Arthurian legend comes to life in the first novel in this remarkable, award-winning saga

Thirteen-year-old Arthur de Caldicot lives on a manor, desperately waiting for the moment he can become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone - a seeing stone - that shows him visions of his namesake, King Arthur. The legendary dragons, battles, and swordplay that young Arthur witnesses seem a world away from his own life. And yet there is something definitely joining the Arthurs together.
It will be Arthur de Caldicot's destiny to discover how his path is intertwined with a king's . . . for the past is not the only thing the seeing stone can see.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0439263271
• ISBN 13: 9780439263276
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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