About this title: This saga of yearning and mystery travels across oceans and continents to Iceland, Greenland, and North America during the time in history when Anglo-Saxons battled Vikings and the Norsemen discovered America. The marked contrasts between powerful royalty, landless peasants, Viking warriors and noble knights are expertly brought to life in this gripping tale of the French prince named Rumon. Shipwrecked off the Cornish coast on his quest to find King Arthur's legendary Avalon, Rumon meets a lonely girl named Merewyn and their lives soon become intertwined. Rumon brings Merewyn to England, but ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Not Available, Not Available
Date Published: 0000
Description: Good in Good jacket. See Notes. Gently used paperback. ** PLEASE READ: This book is: SETON, ANYA: AVALON This is the book you will receive if you order this item. read more
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. The backstrip is creased as is the bottom left corner of the front cover. The rear cover has brown staining. THe pages are quite age-toned. 352 p. Glued binding. read more
Edition: Second printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1965
Description: Fair in good dust jacket. 440 p. 22 cm. The inside binding is loose and disconnected to pages, otherwise, the book is in good condition, clean pages, light yellowing. Very light wear on edges of dj. read more
Description: Good. 2nd printing, Hardcover, DJ in plastic, map endpapers, $5.95 publisher price on DJ flap, 440 pages clean, 1st 8 pages are loose, otherwise book would be very good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Crest Book, Connecticut
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good with no dust jacket; Wear, rubbing and soil to covers. Spine slant. Mild age-toning. Binding sound, text clean. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. 14785. 352 pages; J-2-13-09. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780340027134ISBN:0340027134
Description: Good. G4. Nice paperback. No spine crease. Light wear. Text is clean, unmarked, tight. All items are carefully and securely packed to insure they arrive in the advertised condition. read more
"I first read this book as a youngling, and loved it then. Avalon qas one of the first books I read that gave a fairly accurate depiction of early medieval times. I found a copy in a used bookstore, and had to re-read it. I was able to pick up most of her books for a song, so will re-read those also"
"Anya Seton was one of my favorite authors in my teens and early twenties. Her books were atmospheric, and she seemed to bring the time (usually middle ages, but also early sixteen hundreds) to fully into fruition that you are litterally transported. You become unaware of the act of reading, and instead you are experiencing the story. She made it hard to get my reading done for school!"
"This is an intelligently written historical fiction account of Great Britain in the 10th century. The book takes some very poorly understood periods of history and crafts a reasonable story around them. The lead female character is a Cornish woman who believes she is descended from King Arthur, and the main lead male character is a Breton-raised man who does not have the characteristics most desired in men of that time--bravery, a willingness to fight and desire for power. He is not a very inpsiring individual to be honest--but both lead characters are complex and seemingly real.
I really enjoyed this book and feel it has given me new insight into the Norse/Viking relationship with Great Britain and definitely better insight into that 10th century time period."
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