The Oak Above the Kings (The Tales of Arthur) - Softcover

Morrison-Kennealy, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451454510 ISBN 13: 9780451454515

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

Combining the technology of science fiction and traditions of Celtic myth with the story of King Arthur, the sequel to The Tales of Arthur is seen through the eyes of Knight Taliesin, Chief Bard of Keltia. Reprint. PW.

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From the Back Cover:

AN ARTHURIAN LEGEND FOR THE FUTURE

The Keltiad novels map out a fair and wondrous realm – a faraway star empire that is at the same time both strangely familiar and utterly strange.

'The Oak Above the Kings' tells how Arthur, the lost prince, comes at last to his long-prophesied destiny: overthrowing the usurping Archdruid, Edeyrn, who for centuries has held all Keltia in thrall by the towering force of his evil magic; restoring Uthyr, king in exile, to his rightful place; coming at last to his own kingship, the double throne he must share, by law and love, with the one woman in all Keltia fit to share it with him – Gweniver, princess and priestess, his own cousin . . . and his wife.

Using Taliesin’s voice, telling the tale as only a bard could tell it, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison fashions from the age-old story of Arthur a legend for the future, to make him the true ‘oak above the kings’.

“Engrossing, entertaining, enlightening – and fun”
ANNE MCCAFFREY

“A highly effective combination of celtic mythology, SF and fantasy . . . an imaginatively wrought and scrupulously detailed series”
BOOKLIST

About the Author:

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison is the author of ‘The Keltiad’ fantasy series. She is a Dame of the Ordre Souverain et Militaire du Temple de Jerusalem, a Regular of the Order of St Michael, a High Priestess in a Celtic pagan tradition and a member of Mensa. She lives in Manhattan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0451454510
• ISBN 13: 9780451454515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432