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What is The singing sword : the forging of Arthur's Britain about?
We know the Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king. But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome, or struggling to create a last stronghold against the barbarian onslaughts from the north and east. Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor. With The Camulod Chronicles , Jack Whyte tells us what legend has the history of blood and violence, passion and steel, out of which was forged a great sword, and a great nation. The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone : As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning--a crude hill-fort,
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Whyte, Jack
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312852924
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (5,058 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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