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  <title><![CDATA[Avalon: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;This saga of yearning and mystery travels across oceans and continents to Iceland, Greenland, and North America during the time in history when Anglo-Saxons battled Vikings and the Norsemen discovered America. The marked contrasts between powerful royalty, landless peasants, Viking warriors and noble knights are expertly brought to life in this gripping tale of the French prince named Rumon. Shipwrecked off the Cornish coast on his quest to find King Arthur's legendary Avalon, Rumon meets a lonely girl named Merewyn and their lives soon become intertwined. Rumon brings Merewyn to England, but once there he is so dazzled by Queen Alrida's beauty that it makes him a virtual prisoner to her will. In this riveting romance, Anya Seton once again proves her mastery of historical detail and ability to craft a compelling tale that includes real and colorful personalities such as St. Dunstan and Eric the Red.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1956</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Anya Seton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Nov 14 17:00:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to read this book because I really enjoyed Anya Seton's book &quot;Katherine&quot;.  I didn't like this one nearly as well.  Toward the end I just didn't care anymore what happened, I just wanted it to be over.  I also had a hard time with the pronunciation of the names of some of the peop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37175032">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 26 19:48:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 26 19:55:42 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't honestly bash on the woman who wrote &quot;Katherine&quot; but I didn't really like this book. By the end of the book I felt like I didn't even know Merewyn. She was so fickle and confusing. And Rumon was so conflicting. I don't think I liked either of them. Well I liked Rumon at the end. Yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40975802">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56235338">
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  <read_at>Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 15 18:49:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 17 00:50:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is in many ways the total opposite to Anya Seton's Katherine. Whereas Katherine is the story of a passionate love affair this is the story of a love that never had a chance to be. Merewyn and Rumon simply miss each other, first Merewyn loves Rumon but he feels himself above her and by the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56235338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55684445">
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  <read_at>Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 11 11:20:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 29 12:12:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a peculiar one to critique. The historical basis is fascinating and impressive (although Ethelred and the Queen Mother come off [inaccurately:] as cartoonishly evil, for what I can only think of as dramatic effect). Her writing is compelling. But what a sap of a hero and a colorless her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55684445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19287275">
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 02 08:37:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 02 08:37:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Avalon. It is not the best Anya Seton book (that honor goes to Katherine). However, for a book set in the Dark Ages, it is absolutely fantastic. Anya Seton did a fantastic job transplanting readers into a time about which we know little. I knew nothing going into the novel about the Saxon ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19287275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76125048">
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 29 10:52:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 29 10:52:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this. Avalon is a beautiful story about searching for the unknown while finding yourself along the way (at least that's how I saw it). I love the time period it was set in: ancient history in modern eyes. Old England, the mountains of Iceland, the 'founding' of Greenland, King Edgar, Leif Eri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76125048">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61049407">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 25 07:06:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 28 15:24:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an intelligently written historical fiction account of Great Britain in the 10th century. The book takes some very poorly understood periods of history and crafts a reasonable story around them. The lead female character is a Cornish woman who believes she is descended from King Arthur, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61049407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75761912">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book as a youngling, and loved it then. Avalon qas one of the first books I read that gave a fairly accurate depiction of early medieval times. I found a copy in a used bookstore, and had to re-read it. I was able to pick up most of her books for a song, so will re-read those also]]></body>
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    <review id="55063366">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dianne]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 05 15:22:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Naturally I was disappointed with this since the same author wrote my number one favorite book.  I suppose my expectations were too high.  However, I don't regret reading it and don't feel as though I wasted my time, but I probably will not read this again.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="52306941">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting tale about early England, Vikings and love.  Not the highly popularized version of Avalon you might know.  Endearing characters and enjoyable writing.]]></body>
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    <review id="42607242">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lynnwood, WA]]></location>        
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 10 15:36:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 10 15:37:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent saga from Anya Seton. The only trouble with this was that I thought it was very similar in plot to Katherine. ]]></body>
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    <review id="77015485">
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    <name><![CDATA[SuzanneG]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 07 10:49:28 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it!  Dark Ages England and Vikings.  Rivals &quot;Katherine&quot; for my favorite Anya Seton novel.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="7388646">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[my mom requested me to find some books by this author because she's one of the best historical novelists out there. she also told me my grandma would read her books non-stop. so, this is the first one i found at the library. it's not about the traditional avalon but good nonetheless. it's about a st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7388646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57366082">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ginny]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 26 08:48:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great historical novel of the 10th century, well researched.]]></body>
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    <review id="47520474">
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[who cares about them?]]></body>
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    <review id="65005526">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historical fiction novel - ]]></body>
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    <review id="45000708">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another epic historical fiction saga.  Takes place in England, Iceland and Greenland with VIking raids and a young Leif Erikson.  Very good!]]></body>
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    <review id="69250621">
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    <body><![CDATA[Anya Seton was one of my favorite authors in my teens and early twenties.  Her books were atmospheric, and she seemed to bring the time (usually middle ages, but also early sixteen hundreds) to fully into fruition that you are litterally transported.  You become unaware of the act of reading, and in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69250621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an older book, written in the 1960s I believe. I would probably have liked the book more if I hadn't been completely mistaken in what it would be about. <br/>Avalon is a historical fiction, but NOT a historical romance. It takes two people, a man and a woman, and follows their lives from wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14733546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very enjoyable. It was nice taking a travel through history in a period of time not so frequently written about. The up and down see saw of Merewyn's and Ruman's star crossed love was heartbreaking at times. I don't want to say more to give out the end. <br/><br/>It isn't Katherine by a long shot,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30699797">more...</a>]]></body>
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