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Cargando... King of the Middle March (2003)por Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A really strong tale set during the beginning of the Fourth Crusade. It is strange to find so many knight who, like Lord Stephen, can barely see or who, like Sir William, are failing in all their faculties. I guess the young knights are supposed to do the athletic portion of the fighting. The terrible things he has observed and been unable, mostly, to prevent and even the very real fighting he has had to do himself, mostly against his fellow crusaders has changed the protagonist greatly. The previous books were not very easy going, but this book, since it is set in the middle of a war is by far the most difficult and contains the most terrible and barbaric events. The protagonist's metaphor of himself as the apple containing the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden is really striking. Michael Maloney's reading is excellent. The third in a trilogy telling of the life of a 12th Century boy who can "see" something of the life and heroism of King Arthur. The language tends to be a bit simplistic, even for a young person but the story is interesting and does a very nice job of packing information about the period and some moral lessons in with enough adventure to keep a child engaged. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Arthur de Caldicot, on his way to becoming a man, witnesses the horrors of the Fourth Crusade in Venice and Zara, as well as the downfall of King Arthur's court, in his seeing stone. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Wie die letzten Bände auch ist die Geschichte in viele (hier: 112) in der Regel sehr kurze Kapitel eingeteilt. Sonst waren es auch mehr Schlaglichter auf die Geschehnisse um 1200, abgewechselt mit Erzählungen der Artussage. Im dritten Band ist die Erzählung durchgehender, da waren die kurzen Kapitel am Anfang etwas irritierend, auch, weil wenig Entwicklung statt fand. Zum Ende hin las sich die Geschichte dann nochmal flüssiger.
Insgesamt ein überzeugendes Konzept, die Artussage mit dem mittelalterlichen Leben in England an der Grenze zu Wales und einem Kreuzzug zu verknüpfen. So, wie Kevin Crossley-Holland das mittelalterliche Leben beschreibt, könnte es wohl wirklich gewesen sein. ( )