Sword at Sunset (Rediscovered Classics)
by Rosemary Sutcliff
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Author: Rosemary SutcliffForeword: Jack Whyte
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN: 1556527594
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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- ISBN13: 9781556527593
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Sword at Sunset (Rediscovered Classics)
Book Review: After All These Years, Still the Best
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally! I am delighted to see a revival and reprinting of Rosemary Sutcliff's books and other historical novels of her contemporaries. I was overjoyed to see the reissue of this particular one -- I have been hanging on to a ratty old paperback edition of Sword at Sunset through college, graduate school, jobs both good and bad, and several long-distance moves. I've also read and enjoyed many of her other Roman Britain novels currently being reissued -- and how wonderful to have good, meaty reading material available for high school people to give them examples of fine writing, enriching language and well-developed characters instead of the politically correct dumbed-down garbage that floods the markets.
I believe Sword at Sunset was the first Arthurian novel to dispense with medieval trappings and deal with who the warlords of 5th-century Britain truly were, how they lived, and how they tried to repel the waves of invasion which threatened their existence -- but which also created the ethnic and cultural mixture which became Great Britain. Artos the Bear is the true spirit of post-Roman Britain, a war chieftain with a legacy of Roman culture but a Roman culture overlaid and tempered by exposure to parallel barbarian cultures in an untamed natural landscape.
No point in my repeating plot and story details that other reviewers have already covered eloquently -- I just want to express how good this novel is, how well it stands the test of time, and how happy I am to see it regaining its rightful place in historical fiction.
Hmmm -- I think it's time for me to reread it. Again.
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