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Jack Whyte

    15 maart 1940 – 22 februari 2021

    Jack Whyte herinterpreteert de legende van Koning Arthur in een epische historische serie die zich afspeelt tegen de achtergrond van het post-Romeinse Britannia. De magie vermijdend, baseert Whyte zijn verhaal op de historische omstandigheden van die tijd, wat suggereert dat zijn versie het ware verhaal is dat in de loop van de tijd is gemytologiseerd. Zijn stijl, die historische nauwkeurigheid combineert met artistieke vrijheid, blaast traditionele personages en plaatsen nieuw leven in, vaak gepresenteerd in hun Gaelische of Latijnse vormen. Whyte staat bekend om zijn pogingen om historische realiteit met mythe te verbinden, en biedt lezers een interpretatie van de Arthuriaanse mythe als een weerspiegeling van een turbulent verleden.

    Jack Whyte
    Excalibur
    The Boy King
    The Last Stand
    The Singing Sword
    The Eagles' Brood
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    • The Eagles' Brood

      • 658bladzijden
      • 24 uur lezen
      4,3(4676)Tarief

      The Eagles’ Brood continues the saga of the Colony known as Camulod, and the tale of the descendants of those brave Romans who forged a new way of life for the Celt and Roman peoples when the Roman legions departed Britain. Most know the new leader of the Colony as Merlyn; all call him Commander. Cauis Merlyn Britannicus is responsible for their safety, and all look to him for guidance, leadership, justice, and salvation. It is a harsh life but a good community, and Merlyn is dedicated to spreading the influence of Roman culture beyond the Colony’s borders. Uther Pendragon, the man who will father the legendary Arthur, is the cousin Merlyn has known and loved since they were birthed, four hours apart on the same day, the year the legions left Britain. He is the tireless warrior--the red dragon to Merlyn’s great silver bear--and between the two of them, the Colony knows few enemies. As different as they can be, they are inseparable: two faces of the same coin. In a world torn apart by warfare and upheaval, each is the other’s certainty and guarantee of the survival of the Colony . . . until a vicious crime, one that strikes at the roots of Merlyn’s life, drives a wedge between them. A wedge that threatens the fate of a nation . . . .

      The Eagles' Brood
    • We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king. But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome, or struggling to create a last stronghold against the barbarian onslaughts from the north and east. Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor. With The Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte tells us what legend has forgotten: the history of blood and violence, passion and steel, out of which was forged a great sword, and a great nation. The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone: As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning--a crude hill-fort, which one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city . . . known as Camelot.

      The Singing Sword
    • The Last Stand

      • 566bladzijden
      • 20 uur lezen
      4,3(17)Tarief

      The fifth book in Jack Whyte's remarkable, authentic Legends of Camelot series, now available in the UK

      The Last Stand
    • The second book in Jack Whyte's remarkable and authentic Legends of Camelot series, now available in the UK

      The Boy King
    • Excalibur

      • 624bladzijden
      • 22 uur lezen
      4,3(4134)Tarief

      The first book in Jack Whyte's remarkable, authentic Legends of Camelot series, now available in the UK

      Excalibur
    • As modern Scotland chooses its future, Jack Whyte presents his epic adventure about its founding hero, Robert the Bruce, and the battle for the heart of his homeland.

      Resistance
    • The Sorcerer

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen
      4,0(16)Tarief

      The third book in Jack Whyte's remarkable and authentic Legends of Camelot series, now available in the UK

      The Sorcerer
    • Uther

      • 832bladzijden
      • 30 uur lezen
      4,1(92)Tarief

      The story of Uther Pendragon, cousin to sorcerer Merlyn and father to Arthur.

      Uther
    • Uprising

      • 611bladzijden
      • 22 uur lezen
      3,9(16)Tarief

      The hugely ambitious Bravehearts Chronicles reaches its climax with the tale of how Robert Bruce and William Wallace fought off the mighty English army and changed Scotland's history through blood, brains and bravery.

      Uprising