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MYSTICISM AND ENCHANTMENT
The first volume in Nikolai Tolstoy's eLic The Book of
Merlin trilogy is as rich and vivid ah evocation of the
world of Celtic Britain as one might expect from the pen
of a direct descendant of the author of War & Peace,
i 4
The narrator and chief character, the poet and magician
Merlin, takes us into an unfamiliar but utterly convincing
world of warrior aristocrats, bards and druids, a world of
cruelty and of exquisite beauty, mingling high adventure
and mysticism, tragedy and laughter.
A tour deforce of literary recreation, it will be recognised
for years to come as the most convincing Arthurian saga
written in modern times.
'I WAS ENTRANCED THE BOOK HAS SO MANY
STRANDS, SO MANY LAYERS OF MEANING,
THAT IT DEFIES SUMMARY HERE IS A NOVEL
IN WHICH IMAGINATION AND SCHOLARSHIP
MAKE A PERFECT MARRIAGE WITH
CRAFTMANSHIP AND NARRATIVE DRIVE. BUY
IT, I BESEECH YOU'
Ted Willis, Sunday Telegraph
'GRIPS THE READER I FELT I COULD READ
THIS...
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Fülszöveg
MYSTICISM AND ENCHANTMENT
The first volume in Nikolai Tolstoy's eLic The Book of
Merlin trilogy is as rich and vivid ah evocation of the
world of Celtic Britain as one might expect from the pen
of a direct descendant of the author of War & Peace,
i 4
The narrator and chief character, the poet and magician
Merlin, takes us into an unfamiliar but utterly convincing
world of warrior aristocrats, bards and druids, a world of
cruelty and of exquisite beauty, mingling high adventure
and mysticism, tragedy and laughter.
A tour deforce of literary recreation, it will be recognised
for years to come as the most convincing Arthurian saga
written in modern times.
'I WAS ENTRANCED THE BOOK HAS SO MANY
STRANDS, SO MANY LAYERS OF MEANING,
THAT IT DEFIES SUMMARY HERE IS A NOVEL
IN WHICH IMAGINATION AND SCHOLARSHIP
MAKE A PERFECT MARRIAGE WITH
CRAFTMANSHIP AND NARRATIVE DRIVE. BUY
IT, I BESEECH YOU'
Ted Willis, Sunday Telegraph
'GRIPS THE READER I FELT I COULD READ
THIS STORY FOR EVERMORE'
Roy Kerridge, Spectator
'I MUCH PREFERRED IT TO THE LORD OF
THE RINGS'
John Bayley, Professor of English, Oxford University
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