Marion Zimmer Bradley, Author, Diana L. Paxson, Author, Diana L. Paxson, Joint Author . Viking $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-670-91023-6
The Mists of Avalon
(1982), a feminist goddess-oriented retelling of the legend of Arthur, won acclaim and a crowd of lifelong fans for Bradley, also author of the Darkover series. Now, after Bradley's death in 1999, this prequel—coauthor
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Diana L. Paxson, Author . Tor $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0889-4
Set about 25 years after the action in The Jewel of Fire
(1992), bestseller Paxson's previous Westria novel, this eighth volume will please series fans curious to meet a new generation as it comes of age: Prince Phoenix, who takes the name...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author . Viking $25.95 (394p) ISBN 978-0-670-03870-1
This stirring prequel to The Forest House
, Paxson’s first collaboration with Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), is sure to please fans of the late author of The Mists of Avalon
. In The Forest House
, they introduced the Society of the...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07496-8
This haunting retelling of the tale of Tristan and Iseult (here called Drustan and Esseilte in accordance with Celtic legend and language) goes back to early versions, before Mallory and Wagner, to explore the nature of love, duty and loyalty. The...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author William Morrow & Company $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-10821-2
The legend of Siegfried and Brunhilde--popularized in Icelandic sagas, the medieval German epic Nibelungenlied and Wagner's operas--is imaginatively retold in this lyrical narrative, the first installment of a projected trilogy. Tapping the myth's...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (402p) ISBN 978-0-688-08339-7
In this fantasy retelling of King Lear , Paxton intriguingly posits that the daughters' treatment of the old king demonstrates a conflict between matrilineal and patrilineal cultures. Leir, a leader of the Quiritani people from the Great Land,...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (371p) ISBN 978-0-688-13986-5
This sometimes grim but always gripping retelling of the tragedy of Sigfrid and Brunahild, a sequel to The Wolf and the Raven, depicts the doomed lovers, and their royal spouses, in warm and sympathetic terms, with maybe a touch too modern a...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14606-1
Like its predecessor, The Dragons of the Rhine, this soundly researched conclusion to Paxon's Wodan's Children trilogy humanizes figures from Germanic myth. To survive against fifth-century European barbarians, Rome had to play its old Germanic...
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Diana L. Paxson. Red Wheel/Weiser, $22.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-57863-610-5
This short work from pagan priestess Paxson (Essential Asatru), a prolific writer specializing in Germanic mythology and religion, is a mix of semi-scholarly exposition on lore and history; expressions of personal visions and experiences inspired by
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Diana L. Paxson, Author, Adrienne Martin-Barnes, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (426p) ISBN 978-0-688-14156-1
The life of the ancient Irish hero Fionn Mac Cumhal is brought to its close in the resounding conclusion to the trilogy begun in Master of Earth and Water. In his weary maturity, Fionn and his fianna (national guard) serve the Ard Ri (High King)...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Author . Roc $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46292-3
Paxson, Marion Zimmer Bradley's long time coauthor, delivers a gripping Bronze Age tale in this seventh installment of the Avalon series. Long before the events of Bradley's epic Mists of Avalon
, young Mikantor, destined to be a king, is...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Author Viking Books $25.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-670-03314-0
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon, Diana L. Paxson's latest prequel (after 2001's The Priestess of Avalon) to the late author's The Mists of Avalon, merges myths of Avalon and Atlantis in an adult faerie tale notable for its understated
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Diana L. Paxson, Author, Lorna Raver, Read by , read by Lorna Raver. Tantor Media $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-1187-9
Anyone familiar with Arthurian lore knows of the magical sword given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, but the origins of the sword itself have been a mystery until now. Paxon continues Marion Zimmer Bradley's beloved Arthurian saga in this...
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Diana L. Paxson, Author, Adrienne Martine-Barnes, With William Morrow & Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-12505-9
Paxson ( The White Raven ) and Martine-Barnes invent the childhood and adolescence of the legendary (possibly third century A.D.) Irish outlaw/poet, Fionn mac Cumhal in this first of several promised volumes. Raised in hiding by the wisewoman...
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