Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliff

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Year: 2008
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781613743003
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war—and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the interweaving of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imagination, and hypnotic narrative skill comes a novel that has richly earned its reputation as a classic.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• FOREWORD
• HIC JACET ARTHURUS REX QUONDAM REXQUE FUTURUS
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• Table of Contents
• GLOSSARY
• CHAPTER ONE - The Sword
• CHAPTER TWO - Left-Hand World
• CHAPTER THREE - The Birds of Rhiannon
• CHAPTER FOUR - The Horses of a Dream
• CHAPTER FIVE - Bedwyr
• CHAPTER SIX - The Laborer and the Hire
• CHAPTER SEVEN - Frontiers
• CHAPTER EIGHT - Wind from the North
• CHAPTER NINE - War Horns in the Spring
• CHAPTER TEN - Battle Before Deva
• CHAPTER ELEVEN - The Witch’s Son
• CHAPTER TWELVE - Trimontium
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN - The People of the Hills
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Cit Coit Caledon
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Midsummer Fires
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Lammas Torches
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Guenhumara
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The Lovers
• CHAPTER NINETEEN - The House of Holy Ladies
• CHAPTER TWENTY - The Beast and the Flower
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - Earth Mother
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - The Last of the North
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - Threnody
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - The Fetch
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - Shadows
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - The Sword in the Sky
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - The King’s Hunting
• CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - Rex Belliorum
• CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - Badon Hill
• CHAPTER THIRTY - Hail Caesar!
• CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - The Bargain
• CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - The Queen’s Captain
• CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - “It Was Warm Between Thy Breasts, Lalage”
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - Thinning Ranks
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - The Traitor
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX - The Last Camp
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - The Corn King
• ALSO FROM CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS