Falls the ShadowPenman, Sharon Kay
9780375500039
The Sword and the Miracle: A Novel
Melvyn Bragg
ISBN 10: 0375500030 / 0-375-50003-0
ISBN 13: 9780375500039
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780375500039
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
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Melvyn Braggs acclaimed epic novel is set at the tumultuous dawn of Christianity in Britain and Ireland. It is a stunning story of adventure and spirituality, war and romance, but it is deeply rooted in Bragg's historical studies of the Dark Ages, and it throws into question our modern-day conceptions of faith, hope, and true love.Two people destined to be lovers sacrifice themselves for what they believe to be a greater destiny. For the warrior Padric, a charismatic British prince, it is the salvation of his people and homeland from warring Northumbrian overlords; for Bega, a bewitching Irish princess, it is carrying out her self-imposed commitment to spread the word of God. She, bearing a fragment of the true cross, is gifted with miraculous powers; he is a swordsman without peer. Their disparate missions send them apart as they travel throughout the frigid wilderness of a primitive England beset by terror and villainy. Faith is pitched against doubt, spiritual fulfillment against physical desire, romantic ideals against political expediency and pragmatism against theory.The Sword and the Miracle rose quickly to the top of the British bestseller lists, heralded by critics as an absorbing, wonderfully evocative work, several cuts above contemporary attempts at historical fiction. The reader will find an exciting narrative informed by insight, knowledge and understanding.
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"Bragg's stately, seething, passionate epic is several cuts above modern attempts at historical fiction....The research is thorough and the erudition lightly worn, but it is the relationship between Bega and the fictional Padric--driven apart by their separate missions to build a Christian, Teuton-free Britain--and that gives this novel its poignancy and power. If you do not blub at the end, you have no heart."
Kate Saunders, Literary Review, April 1996
Review:"Serio-escapist fiction void of bodice-ripping, free of cliches, clean-limbed in style: a rich and powerful plunge into the dark ages."
Kirkus, 08/15/1997
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