arthur books
we have just bought this one
but other ones around the theme i have enjoyed are these 2, that SB also loved
gawain was truly a fabulous read aloud!
2 v different ones from my childhood!
sorry everyone else! Merry and I were having a discussion on the ‘real myth’ if there is such a thing! behind the arthurian legend, and why i have been jaw droppingly appalled with the merlin reimagined! however, i do actually enjoy the merlin series! have just not equated it with arthur as it were.! owther books quite off on a tangent around the legend i enjoyed as a teen were: Taliesin (Pendragon Cycle)
; Merlin: Book II of the Pendragon Cycle
and Arthur (Book III of the Pendragon Cycle)
ANd these are sort of the initial focus of the legends! Arthurian Romances (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
, Le Morte d’Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World’s Classics)
and The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)
and yes, i have read them all and far more – have a major myths and legends fetish I guess!!
oh, and since i just can’t stop, 2 fabulous fiction books/series have their roots in welsh celtic myths!
The Dark is Rising Sequence:
and The Owl Service
i have been reminded of omissions!! Merlin Trilogy
The Once and Future King
Name Your Link
oh dear, more ommissions to add!
The King Arthur Trilogy:
The Seeing Stone (Arthur)
there must be something for everyone now!
Do you remember a 1970s tv adaptation of the owl service? It was terrifying!
Violet’s got Philip Reeve’s Here Lies Arthur, but I haven’t read it. He’s very good though.
i do remember the adaption – i haven’t had the strength to read the book since!! not owls but flowers though – so maybe one day…
you haven’t mentioned the Mary Stewart set, granted more around Merlin than Arthur, but particular favourites with me.
I liked teh Pendragon books! I’ve resigned myself to the fact that Merlin is a good bit of Saturday night TV and forget that it’s nothing like every other version of the myth…..
Rosemary Sutliffe has done an Arthur trilogy which is, as yet, unread on our shelf. Also Kevin Crossley Holland has written a trilogy, beginning with The Seeing Stone, I believe, which features the mythic Merlin, who features in the life of a young lord in the 12th century who finds his life paralleling that of the earlier Arthur. I read those and enjoyed them, though they are not directly Arthurian
We liked the Pendragon books too. One of Jasper’s middle names is Taliesin.
I always fancied adding taliesin to a name – but never got the chance!
and i knew you would have some lovely extra ideas!!
mary stewart did an AWESOME merlin trilogy. also, can I mention T H White? (sword in the stone was the first.) I know they’re shamelessly romantic and rosey glasses’ed about the era but I really love ‘em…
alan garner – awesome, though my fave was the Weird STone of Brisingham, and loved the dark is rising, particularly The Green Witch.