- Paperback: 452 pages
- Publisher: Crossway Books; 6th THUS edition (March 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0891074074
- ISBN-13: 978-0891074076
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
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While the druids of the Isle of the Mighty predict the coming of one whose song will change the world, a young priestess in Atlantis foresees the destruction of her homeland. The love story of the bard Taliesin and the Princess Charis begins a new series for Lawhead ("The Empyrion Saga" and the "Dragon King Trilogy"). This graceful combination of Atlantean legend, Celtic myth, and Christian messagereminiscent of C.S. Lewisis highly recommended. JC
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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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.
Taliesin is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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WILL WEEP NO MORE for the lost, asleep in their water graves. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
not to be missed,
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This review is from: Taliesin (Paperback)
Please, please do not get hung up on the fact that earlier editions of this book included potatoes! This is a powerful fantasy with a lot to say about loyalty, love, purity, and integrity in everyday "real life." One fascinating aspect of the book is Lawhead's ability to weave together stories that you might not have thought of together before--Atlantis, Taliesin, and Arthur all are eventually brought to life against the fading background glory of the Roman Empire. Miracles and magic mingle with nitty-gritty questions of survival, and moral dilemmas are neither ducked nor glossed over. This book is, and will stay, on my keeper shelf as a Christian response to those writers who seem to think fantasy must be tawdry and shocking to be any good.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting Christian Fantasy,
By Matt (Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taliesin: Book One of the Pendragon Cycle (Mass Market Paperback)
Lawhead incorporates the Arthurian fantasy world with the Ideals of Christendom for an enjoyable scenario. Sometimes it is very slow paced, while others are fascinating and exciting. It was interesting, but i've not read any of the sequels following it in the past few years since reading this.
3.0 out of 5 stars
I'm the middle ground,
By Gigi Griffis "Gigi Griffis" (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taliesin: Book One of the Pendragon Cycle (Mass Market Paperback)
I guess i'm the middle ground on this. The other reviews paint it either horribly or as something wonderful. Well, it's neither. While Lawhead is NOT at all at his best in these books, He is harley a complete failure in writing them. Taking an archaeology course last semester I was surprised at all the details and such that I recalled from these books that allowed me to grasp the rest of what my professor was saying. They are mostly accurate and have many fast-paced delightful scenes, but they also find a way to be monotonous. There were several things he should have condensed. The reason I finished the series is a loyalty to Lawhead's books, and a thought that perhaps they would speed up somewhere in there as his books often do. While it had it's moments, the series isn't something I'd pick up again. And perhaps I'd only reccamend it if you don't have a history of reading Lawhead, because his other books are so amazing that these seem drab, when really they are fairly good books.
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