Stonehenge: A Novel

Bernard Cornwell

HarperCollins, Dec 14, 2004 - Fiction - 448 pages

Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell takes us back four thousand years, to a vibrant world of ritual and sacrifice that is at once timeless and wholly original. This historical novel unlocks the mystery of Britain's most haunting and puzzling structure, and tells a tale of three brothers—fierce rivals—who are uneasily united in their quest to create a temple to their gods. Lengar, the eldest brother, kills his own father to become chief of his tribe. Camaban, the illegitimate middle brother, is determined to have a massive temple built in his own honor. And Saban, the youngest, who actually builds Stonehenge, must act as mediator between the other two. Stonehenge is the enthrallingly dramatic story of patricide, betrayal, and murder; of bloody brotherly rivalry; and of the never-ending quest for power, wealth, and spiritual fulfillment.

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Review: Stonehenge

User Review  - Liz Chapman - Goodreads

Cornwell based this book mostly on John Norths book Stonehenge , Neolithic man and the Cosmos . The characters he invented to tell the story are vivid ,there is high drama and the pace is kept up so ...

Review: Stonehenge

User Review  - Chris Bray - Goodreads

Even though this seems to be one of Cornwell's less popular novels I thoroughly enjoyed it. The early British bronze age was a time of change, of trade, of new peoples and ideas, of astonishing ...

Contents

• Section 1: 5
• Section 2: 20
• Section 3: 39
• Section 4: 60
• Section 5: 77
• Section 6: 93
• Section 7: 115
• Section 8: 139
• Section 9: 158
• Section 10: 178
• Section 11: 202
• Section 12: 227
• Section 13: 247
• Section 14: 269
• Section 15: 293
• Section 16: 314
• Section 17: 337
• Section 18: 363
• Section 19: 383
• Section 20: 402
• Section 21: 423
• Section 22: 435
• Section 23: 436
• Section 24: 437
• Section 25: 439

About the author

Bernard Cornwell is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Agincourt and The Fort; the bestselling Saxon Tales, which include The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land, and Death of Kings; and the Richard Sharpe novels, among many others. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stonehenge: A Novel
• Author: Bernard Cornwell
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2004
• ISBN: 0060956852, 9780060956851
• Length: 448 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical; Fiction / War & Military; History / Military / General