Coming of the King Author:Nikolai Tolstoy The legend of Merlin is one of the greatest and most mysterious in all of literature. Now Nikolai Tolstoy retells this magnificent tale in the most dramatic, enchanting, and thoroughly researched novels ever written on the subject. The Coming of the King, published in Britain to wide acclaim and a London Times bestseller, is the first volume of ... more »The Books of Merlin, the massive saga of Merlin's life and his extraordinary impact on Celtic Britain. Within these pages you will find not the Merlin of fairy tales but a Merlin more alive and fascinating than you have ever seen before. Written on a truly epic scale, The Coming of the King brings to life the world of the Celts in all of its valor and violence, love and lust, poetry and profanity. It is a world of monsters, heroes, and queens, of evil kings and crafty druids, of brave warriors and baleful bards.
The Coming of the King tells of a time when it seemed the worst and last age had visited the Earth, a time when mankind seemed doomed and the whole of creation teetered on the brink of annihilation. King Ceneu and his bard Cian cross the treacherous Wilderness to visit the sacred grave mounds of Prydein Island. Here, on the summit of the mist-enshrouded Newais Mountain, they have come to call forth Merlin from his grave of ice and snow to prophesy the future and tell them of his illustrious life.
From his desperate flight while still a babe from the evil King Custennin to live among the herring-folk, to his harrowing descent into the pit of Annufn to visit the dead and learn his fate, to the final battle of the legendary Beowulf and the Red Dragon on the blood-soaked fields of Dineirth, where history would be changed forevermore, The Coming of the King brings to life a saga of trial and triumph, of mystery and discovery.« less