If the contents of theīook, please be as precise as you can as to the location. Please be clear in your message, if you are referring to the informationįound on this web page or the contents of the book. mobi file on your mobile device, please use. Other of his novels became the 1942 film, Son of Fury, with Tyrone Power, the 1954 Yankee Pasha, starring Mamie Van Doren, and in 1958, The Vikings with Kirk Douglas.
His novel The Isle of Retribution was made into a silent film of the same name in 1926. His popular adventure stories appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest. He was a novelist and short story writer, mainly of historical fiction and science fiction, and a big game hunter. He grew up in Medford, Oregon and attended the University of Oregon from 1913 to 1916. The interestingly named Edison Tesla Marshall was born on Augin Rensselaer, Indiana and died on Octoin Augusta, Georgia. If you want to have some idea what the historical Arthur might have been like, this book is the one to read.”. In general, The Pagan King derives much more from the Welsh traditions of King Arthur than the French and later British romances.
Gone are the standard characters of Lancelot, Kay, Gawain and others the Holy Grail is absent and Modred (Mordred) is recast as Arthur’s rakish and conniving half-brother.
Narrated by Arthur himself, he is first a rustic farmboy, discovers through Merdin’s (Merlin’s) help his true identity as the legitimate heir to Vortigern’s throne, and goes on to lead his Cambrian troops to the conquest of Britain. “If you are tired of the standard Christianized Arthurian romance of an idealized Camelot, then The Pagan King is the book for you. This is a telling of the Arthurian legend from a different point of view.
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