Taliesin: Book One of the Pendragon Cycle

Stephen R. Lawhead

Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 496 pages

A magnificent epic of cataclysmic upheaval and heroic love in a breathless age of mythic wonders

It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While, across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.

From the award-winning author of THE DRAGON KING TRILOGY comes a majestic tale of breathtaking scope and haunting beauty. It is the remarkable adventure of Charis—the courageous princess from Atlantis who escapes the terrible devastation of her land—and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. A story of an incomparable love that joins two astonishing worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawns the miracles of Merlin . . . and Arthur the king!

TALIESIN

“Reminiscent of C. S. Lewis . . . Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal

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User Review  - MJWebb - LibraryThing

There is no doubting that this book is beautifully written. The beginning to an epic series, it starts slowly and gradually gains your attention so that by the end you are fully immersed into a ...

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I read this years ago--probably before I had an online shelf to record it in--I basically stopped reading this author after realizing I really didn't care for his style of writing. I remember one ...

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 17
• Section 3: 29
• Section 4: 40
• Section 5: 47
• Section 6: 56
• Section 7: 62
• Section 8: 76
• Section 9: 112
• Section 10: 124
• Section 11: 131
• Section 12: 149
• Section 13: 158
• Section 14: 171
• Section 15: 179
• Section 16: 192
• Section 17: 241
• Section 18: 258
• Section 19: 292
• Section 20: 300
• Section 21: 317
• Section 22: 328
• Section 23: 365
• Section 24: 378
• Section 25: 388
• Section 26: 396
• Section 27: 402
• Section 28: 410
• Section 29: 417
• Section 30: 423
• Section 31: 430
• Section 32: 439
• Section 33: 447
• Section 34: 473

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About the author

Stephen R. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction. His works include Byzantium and the series The Pendragon Cycle, The Celtic Crusades, and The Song of Albion. Lawhead makes his home in Austria with his wife.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Taliesin: Book One of the Pendragon Cycle; Volume 1 of Pendragon Cycle
• Author: Stephen R. Lawhead
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061802328, 9780061802324
• Length: 496 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Fantasy / Historical