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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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ISBN13: 9780345350497 |
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A Literary Guild Featured Alternate
Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, The Mists of Avalon will stay with you for a long time to come....
Review:
"[A] monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . Reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Marion Zimmer Bradley has brilliantly and innovatively turned the myth inside out. . . . add[ing] a whole new dimension to our mythic history."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Gripping . . . Superbly realized . . . A worthy addition to almost a thousand years of Arthurian tradition."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Synopsis:
With more than 1 million copies in print and winner of the 1984 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, "The Mists of Avalon" is by far Marion Zimmer Bradley's most successful novel. Putting a new twist on the Arthurian legends, this beloved book tells the epic story of the women behind the rise and fall of King Arthur.
Synopsis:
A Literary Guild Featured Alternate
Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....
Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....
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lindenslilly, December 23, 2007 (view all comments by lindenslilly)
This book is one of the pride of my fantasy/ science fiction collection. It has held a major influence over my personal writing and my understanding of modern myth telling. It is the capstone of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s large repertoire of female empowered novels. This book contains feminine spirituality, adventure and depth of character which only an experienced story teller can create. This book is a must have for anyone who follows fantasy fiction or avalonian anthologies. I can not recommend it highly enough.
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Larkin P., April 5, 2007 (view all comments by Larkin P.)
I recently read The Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley Zimmer as a school assignment. I think that the author, Marion Zimmer Bradley had a creative idea in telling the life story of King Arthur from the perspective of the women in his life. However, I also think that because there were so many women the plot gets extremely confusing. The Mists of Avalon is very well written, and gives a descriptive picture of what life in the Middle Ages was like for nobles and knights. The Mists of Avalon follows the life of King Arthur’s mother, half sister, aunt and wife. All of the woman with the exception of his wife, battle with being devout Christians or following their age old pagan beliefs. It deals with the woman’s marriages, childbearing, and jealousy toward each other.
As I earlier said, it was my personal opinion that The Mists of Avalon was quite confusing. I had to keep track of the three women who all had similar names, how they were related to each other, how they were related to Arthur, if they had magical powers, who they were married to and who they wished that they were married to. In the end readers only find out the end of three of the probably fifteen women whose lives we had been working so hard to keep straight. The author Marion Zimmer Bradley did a wonderful job of incorporating the dialect of the Middle Ages and the vocabulary that they used. I got a detailed picture of the lonely lives led my noble woman in the Middle Ages. Even the High Queen led a quite isolated life. Noble woman were forced into marriages at an incredibly early age to men they had never seen that were usually the age of their fathers. The Mists of Avalon describes these women as being completely petrified and often taken advantage of by these older men.
These past few months my class has been studying the Middle Ages. So often in reading The Mists of Avalon I was able to make connections from my studies with that of the characters lives. I learned that nobles of the Middle Ages lived lives that we would now consider impoverished. The author describes the characters as eating various roots and a lot of porridge, even the High King and Queen rarely feasted on meats except during holidays. They might get the weekly boar or small birds. The castles they lived in were cold, damp and completely filthy.
In sum, I think that The Mists of Avalon is confusing at times, but gives a brutally honest picture of the life of nobles in the Middle Ages and the conflict between the Church and peoples old religions. I would recommend this book to women middle school age and up.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780345350497
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Del Rey Books
- Author:
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Great britain
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Fantastic fiction
- Subject:
- Fantasy
- Subject:
- Historical fiction
- Subject:
- Fantasy - General
- Subject:
- Fantasy fiction
- Subject:
- Fantasy - Epic
- Subject:
- Fantasy - Historical
- Subject:
- Visionary & metaphysical
- Subject:
- Arthurian romances
- Subject:
- Historical - Arthurian
- Subject:
- Britons
- Subject:
- Arthurian romances -- Adaptations.
- Subject:
- Great Britain History Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066 Fiction.
- Subject:
- Avalon
- Copyright:
- c198
- Edition Description:
- 1st Ballantine Books trade ed.
- Series:
- Del Rey Book
- Series Volume:
- 2001-02
- Publication Date:
- May 1987
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 912
- Dimensions:
- 9.04x6.42x1.58 in. 1.94 lbs.
