Rosemary Sutcliff Pořadí knih

Blue Remembered Hills is Rosemary Sutcliff's memoir of her childhood, youth and her first love affairs. It's a classic of perfect writing about her close and not always easy relationship with her bipolar mother, life in the naval dockyards where her father was based, and the beloved family dogs, interspersed with her stoic endurance of physical and emotional pain. Sutcliff writes with joy about her fleeting childhood friendships in a lonely life as an only child. Her lyrical descriptions of the beauty around their remote house in Devon distract the reader from realising the excruciating clinical treatment Sutcliff underwent for years to repair the damage caused by Still's Disease on her joints. She describes how her isolation and her awareness of being physically different informed some of her best-loved novels, as did her early love affairs.

Alles beginnt mit einem goldenen Apfel und einer schweren Wahl. Die großen Göttinnen Hera, Athene und Aphrodite fordern den Prinzen Paris auf, zu entscheiden, wer von ihnen die Schönste sei. Aphrodite, die Göttin der Liebe, besticht ihn mit dem Versprechen, ihm eine Frau zu schenken, die ebenso bezaubernd ist wie sie selbst. Die einzige Frau aber, die Aphrodite an Schönheit gleichkommt, ist Helena – und sie ist schon mit König Menelaos von Sparta vermählt. Als Paris Helena entführt, nehmen die schicksalhaften Ereignisse ihren Lauf … Mit meisterhafter Erzählkunst lässt Rosemary Sutcliff die von Homer in seiner Iias und Odyssee besungenen Geschehnisse auf eigene Weise eindrucksvoll aufleben. Was immer Sutcliff beschreibt, es wird durch ihren klaren Erzählstil für den Leser wunderbar lebendig.

This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war - and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the braiding of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imagination and hypnotic narrative skill comes a novel that has richly earned its reputation as a classic.

The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers are recognized as being three of the best novels about Roman Britain written for children. Written by Rosemary Sutcliff, one the most acclaimed children's writers of the twentieth century, and loved around the world, these outstanding books are now available in one volume.

Fünf fesselnde Geschichten von Rosemary Sutcliff behandeln Themen wie Mut und Opferbereitschaft. Von der Häuptlingstochter Nessan, die einen Gefangenen rettet, über den vertauschten Knaben Tethra, bis hin zu Aracos, der für einen Freund kämpft, zeigen die Erzählungen den Wert von Integrität und Stärke.

From the fall of Londinium to the building of Hadrian's Wall, and the final departure of the Romans from Britain, this collection of stories, set at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain, follows the fortunes of a family over three hundred years. All soldiers, they are linked by the Capricorn bracelet, first worn by the centurion Lucius.

This saga of the Irish Celts is re-told by Rosemary Sutcliff with a magical weaving together of passion and poetry. The boy who takes up the spear and shield of Manhood on this day will become the most renowned of all the warriors of Ireland, men will follow at his call to the world's end, and his enemies will shudder at the thunder of his chariot wheels. So the prophecy went, and as the boy Cuchulain heard it, he went forward to claim the weapons of his manhood. This is the story of how he became the greatest of heroes—the Hound of Ulster.

Kdo by neznal Homérovu slavnou Íliadu? Toto je její přepis obohacený o několik dramatických scén ohledně rozvoje jednotlivých postav. Kniha je vyzdobena spousty krásných ilustrací od Alana Lee. Dodávají jí osobitost a reálnost.

Odysseova dlouhá cesta z vítězné bitvy zpět na Ithaku, barvitý popis jeho zpáteční plavby plné nebezpečí. Pěkným, klasicky působícím jazykem vyprávěné a krásnými ilustracemi doprovozené Odysseovo dobrodružné putování plné nebezpečí. (Cesta domů ostatních hrdinů od Tróje zde není zmiňována.) Kniha navazuje na dílo téže autorky o dobývání Tróje "Černé lodě před Trójou". Doplněno přepisem vybraných jmen a termínů (mezi řeckou a latinskou transkripcí) a mapkou míst Odysseova putování.