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The Mists of Avalon

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Zusatztext Morgaine! gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom!recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a taleof knightly deeds but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucibleof change. Through the lives of pious Guinevere! ambitious Morgause! Priestessof Avalon Viviane and her successor as Lady of the Lake! Morgaine herself!this rich and haunting epic reveals a greater threat to the Old Peoplethan the Saxons. For the spread of patriarchal Roman ways and a narrowChristianity seem likely to drive the ancient worship of the Mother foreverinto the mists... Informationen zum Autor Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books. Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others - entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon. She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren. Klappentext Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books. Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others - entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest...

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Authors Marion Z Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 07.01.1993
 
EAN 9780140177190
ISBN 978-0-14-017719-0
No. of pages 1024
Dimensions 112 mm x 180 mm x 40 mm
Series Penguin Pocketbooks
Avalon
Avalon-Trilogie
Penguin Pocketbooks
Avalon
Subjects Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy

Fantasy, Historical fiction, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Fantasy / Historical, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales

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