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Arthur: The Seeing Stone: Arthur

Autor Kevin Crossley-Holland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2001
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780752844299
ISBN-10: 0752844296
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 2 Maps
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Hachette Children's Group
Colecția Arthur
Seriile Arthur, Waterstones Reading the 21st Century

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Descriere

Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001, this timeless novel is stunningly reissued for a new generation. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches.

Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . .

. "As bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound." - Philip Pullman, The Guardian
 


Notă biografică

Kevin Crossley-Holland won the Carnegie Medal in 1985 for Storm. His many notable books for adults and children include poetry, classic retellings and anthologies. He has written and presented many BBC radio programmes and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. For some years he held a university post in Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Seeing Stone won the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and At The Crossing-Places won a Silver award at the SWPA Spoken Word Awards. Gatty's Tale was shortlisted for the 2008 Carnegie Medal.

Recenzii

"Crossley-Holland is, of course, a poet, and the simplicity, musicality and laconic directness of his writing reflects this."
"...a dramatic conlusion to what has been a wonderfully inventive perspective on Arthurian legend...full of contemporary relevance."
"With King of the Middle March, Kevin Crossley-Holland triumphantly concludes his trilogy about the two Arthurs...Arthur's breathless diary entries have an immediacy and wonder"
"...conjures up a vivid picture of medieval life combined with the magic of Arthurian legends."
"The trilogy is an ambitious and brilliantly realised work, which informs and astounds."
"...the multi-layered conclusion to a most original trilogy...The style is distinctive; short, kaleidoscopic chapters marked by uncluttered, precise sentences. Legend and historical fact are subtly intertwined to make an exciting medieval adventure relevant to today's conflicts and beliefs."
"If you like a good historical saga then you've probably already read The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing-Places, the first two-thirds of Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur Trilogy. King of the Middle March weighs in at 432 pages and is a fairly chunky read...At times funny, at times magical and at times dark, King of the Middle March more than repays the effort"
"Crossley-Holland is, of course, a poet, and the simplicity, musicality and laconic directness of his writing reflects this."
The trilogy is an ambitious and brilliantly realised work, which informs and astounds. -- Joanne Owen, Borders Bookshop Bookseller Buyer's Guide Highlight, 11 June 2003 "'the multi-layered conclusion to a most original trilogy'The style is distinctive; short, kaleidoscopic chapters marked by uncluttered, precise sentences. Legend and historical fact are subtly intertwined to make an exciting medieval adventure relevant to today's conflicts and beliefs." -- Lesley Agnew The Bookseller, 25 July 2003 "If you like a good historical saga then you've probably already read The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing-Places, the first two-thirds of Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur Trilogy. King of the Middle March weighs in at 432 pages and is a fairly chunky read...At times funny, at times magical and at times dark, King of the Middle March more than repays the effort" -- John Crace Guardian Children's Books Supplement, Autumn 2003 "Crossley-Holland is, of course, a poet, and the simplicity, musicality and laconic directness of his writing reflects this." The Independent, 31 October 2003 "'a dramatic conlusion to what has been a wonderfully inventive perspective on Arthurian legend'full of contemporary relevance." Hampstead & Highgate Express, 31 Oct 03 "With King of the Middle March, Kevin Crossley-Holland triumphantly concludes his trilogy about the two Arthurs'Arthur's breathless diary entries have an immediacy and wonder" -- Jan Mark Times Educational Supplement, 14 Nov 03 "'conjures up a vivid picture of medieval life combined with the magic of Arthurian legends." Financial Times, 29 November 2003 "King of the Middle March makes a fitting elegiac end to a remarkably grown-up sequence." Guardian, 29 November 2003