false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170456200m/56351.jpg 56351 10 This is the first part of a trilogy chronicling the life of Queen Guenevere. Beginning with the young King Arthur who is preparing for the war that will unite Britain, the book recounts the marriage of Guenevere and Arthur, the growth of Arthur's court, and Guenevere's adulterous affair with Lancelot.<p> Although told mainly from Guenevere's point of view, this is a truly epic narrative, encompassing pageantry, political intrigue, war, and the conflict between the old pagan religion and Christianity. At times earthy, sensual, and violent, it is a powerful romantic drama firmly rooted in historical Britain, a modern yet traditional retelling of the stories given definitive form in the first four books of Thomas Malory's <I>Le Morte D'Arthur</I>.<p> The characters are grippingly evoked as realistic, living, and breathing human beings rather than simple archetypes, yet the writing is effortlessly lyrical, with the elegant flow of folktale. In emotional depth, <I>Guenevere</I> is comparable to Parke Godwin's fine Arthurian romance, <I>Firelord</I>.<p> This title is Rosalind Miles's 17th book. She is the author of the highly praised <I>I, Elizabeth</I> and <I>The Women's History of the World</I>. In 1990, she won the Network Award for outstanding achievement in the field of writing, and the same year she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. <I>--Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk</I> 468971 book 1999 Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country (Paperback) total:514|5:99|4:153|3:167|2:64|1:30| 514 1769 813 66 5 0 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 18:59:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 16:05:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jun 16 09:44:55 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 09:52:27 -0700 2009
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What strikes me as so interesting is the number of perspectives from which this story is told AND the number of complete discrepencies that occur between tellings.

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I hate it when legends are changed around by modern writers to make them appealing to the uneducated cretin masses...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jul 22 19:59:43 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 20:32:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 13:10:24 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 06:42:19 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=56351