King of the Middle March (Arthur Trilogy) - Softcover

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

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9780439266017: King of the Middle March (Arthur Trilogy)

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ISBN 10: 0439266017 ISBN 13: 9780439266017

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2006

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Arthur de Caldicot waits eagerly in Venice for the start of the Fourth Crusade. But it's now, when Arthur's future should be clearest, that he feels the most doubt. Jealousies and greed threaten the Crusade, leading him to question its true mission. Back in England, his engagement to Winnie remains uncertain, as his search for his birth mother is stymied by his vicious father. And his seeing stone shows him the last days of King Arthur's court -- a great dream destroyed, but also a glorious legend rising from the ruins. Likewise in this book, Arthur becomes a man worthy of his kingly name.

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Review:

The trilogy is an ambitious and brilliantly realised work, which informs and astounds. (Joanne Owen, Borders Bookshop Bookseller Buyer's Guide Highlights, 11 Jun 03)

"�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, 30 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 Nov 03)

"King of the Middle March makes a fitting elegiac end to a remarkably grown-up sequence." (Guardian, 29 November 2003)

Book Description:

The glorious culmination of the Arthur trilogy

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