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Sword of the Rightful King
A Novel of King Arthur
By Yolen, Jane
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-15202-527-4
- Publisher
- Harcourt
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2003
Gr 5-8 A prolific fantasy writer retells a familiar hero tale with an entirely new twist. Following Thomas Malory's 15th-century Le Morte d'Arthur, modern writers, notably T. H. White in The Once and Future King (Putnam, 1958), have described the magnificent sword locked in a great stone and its fateful inscription. As in Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset (Tor, 1987), Yolen sets the story in post-Roman Britain. Arthur is already king, but as the son of usurper Uther Pendragon, he is barely holding together a country divid...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2003
The sword in the stone is the nub of this novel, but in Yolen's telling, Arthur has been on the throne for some time when Merlinnus conceives the idea as a means to consolidate Arthur's shaky rule—particularly to forestall Morgause, the North Witch, who would place one of her own sons on the throne, and herself behind it. Arthur and Merlinnus have received warning that Mor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
