The Winter King (Warlord Chronicles Series #1)

ISBN-13:	9780312156961
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/15/1997
Series:	Warlord Chronicles Series , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	26,017
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. Now a major television show.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 honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant. As Arthur fights to keep a flicker of civilization alive in a barbaric world, Bernard Cornwell makes a familiar tale into a legend all over again.