The Great Captains (Celtic #4)
Book Details
| Title: | The Great Captains (Celtic #4) | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1956 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | Britain, fiction, historical, Arthurian legend | ||||||||||
| Description: | This is the story of “King” Arthur, as I think it might have happened. It is not easy now to throw off all the accretions of legend and, later, poetry and to see the situation with an objective historical eye. They were men, yet to see them only as men, stripped of their doom-driven greatness, is to represent them on too trivial a scale. To draw them as massive heroes only would be to re-create them as inhuman cyphers.
But whatever one does, they loom and fade, slide sideways, shift out of focus, the pathetic and malevolent ghosts of a period quite unlike any other in the history of Britain and for which we have no adequate terms of reference.
Yet it is a tale which sooner or later most storytellers wish to set down in their own way, for the struggles and characters portrayed are archetypal, and there is no getting away from them! Henry Treece - from the introduction to The Great Captains. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 577 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 287  |
Author Bio for Treece, Henry
Henry Treece (1911-1966) was one of the most prolific writers of historical fiction in the 20th Century. Born in Staffordshire, he mostly wrote prose fiction but he also published five collections of poems including The Haunted Garden in 1947. Together with writer J.F. Hendry (1912-1986) he was founder of the New Apocalyptics poetry group that was active in the 1930s.
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