false 161908 4 3 474413 0380709953 9780380709953 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175053918m/474413.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175053918s/474413.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/474413.Sherwood 4.02 84
The stirring tale of England's artful outlaw who challenged the throne itself is known to everyone, as are Marian, the Lady he loved, Will Scatloch, Little John, and the other men who gathered around him. But where might their legend have come from? Who might the historical "Robin" have been all those years ago in the now-famous Sherwood Forest?

Parke Godwin's Robin Hood is subtly different from the known version of the tale. His setting is shortly after the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by William of Normandy in 1066. Young Robin is a lesser Saxon landowner who must bow to a brutal king or lose everything his family and people have fought to hold.

Sherwood is realistic, historical fiction of the highest order. It is a compelling, richly detailed narrative that evokes and illuminates a lost time.
</div>]]> 161908 3.87 775 75 1991 479525 0380775514 9780380775514 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175106810m/479525.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175106810s/479525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479525.Firelord 4.05 83 Godwin tells the story of King Arthur from a historically accurate perspective, based on research & his own archeological trips to various parts of England.
The novel begins with Arthur dictating his memoir to a friar at a monastery. In flashback we are led thru the formative years of young Arthur & his 1st meeting with Merlin. Godwin takes the traditional story & makes it his own, from more historically accurate regional names for the main characters such as Artos for Arthur & Ancellius for Lancelot, to changing key relationships.
Lancelot is no longer the best friend, Bedivere Ap Griffin is. Gweniver is also updated & modernized, possibly patterned after Queen Elizabeth I of England, as Godwin borrows from one of Queen Elizabeth's most famous speeches for a passage in which Arthur forsakes Morgana, his lover, & accepts the responsibilities of Kingship at the cost of personal happiness, just as Elizabeth so famously did during her reign.
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