Mark Saxton (1914–1988)
Author of The Islar
Works by Mark Saxton
Prepared for rage 1 copy
The Broken Circle 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Saxton, Mark
- Legal name
- Saxton, Mark
- Birthdate
- 1914-11-24
- Date of death
- 1988-01-07
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Mineola, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Mineola, New York, USA
Mill River, Masschusetts, USA - Education
- Harvard University
- Occupations
- Editor
Author - Organizations
- Farrar & Rhinehart
William Sloane Associates
McGraw-Hill's Whittlesey House
Harvard University Press
Gambit, Inc.
Houghton-Mifflin
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The Two Kingdoms: A Novel of Islandia by Mark Saxton
This one didn't work as well for me as Saxton's previous, for some reason. I couldn't get into the story very well and found it a bit plodding. Ah well.
½
I wasn't sure that it was going to be possible for anyone to write a good followup to Islandia, but Saxton did manage it here, at least to some degree. There were hints and moments of the wonder of the original, anyway.
In his third and final Islandia novel, Mark Saxton once again delves into the history of Islandia.
The novel occurs in the late twelfth-century, when the Catholic Church makes a final power grab to gain control over the monarchy and therefore control over Islandia. What follows is a dramatic tale of civil conflict that eventually leads to civil war.
I think I liked this book even better than the previous two novels The Islar and The Two Kingdoms. Still, nowhere near Islandia though!
Experiments in Reading… (more)
The novel occurs in the late twelfth-century, when the Catholic Church makes a final power grab to gain control over the monarchy and therefore control over Islandia. What follows is a dramatic tale of civil conflict that eventually leads to civil war.
I think I liked this book even better than the previous two novels The Islar and The Two Kingdoms. Still, nowhere near Islandia though!
Experiments in Reading… (more)
After the king dies, only his daughter is left to succeed him. But Islandia has never had a queen rule over it before. The new, young, willful queen has quite a job ahead of her. The territory of Winder has officially seceded from the country and enemies threaten to invade from all sides, not to mention the assassination attempts. And the only way to survive is with Winder's, and it's king Tor's, help...
This is the second book about Islandia Mark Saxton wrote after helping edit and publish Islandia. The first book was The Islar and the final book is Havoc in Islandia.
I liked this one much better than The Islar. It's still not as good as Islandia, of course!
Experiments in Reading… (more)
This is the second book about Islandia Mark Saxton wrote after helping edit and publish Islandia. The first book was The Islar and the final book is Havoc in Islandia.
I liked this one much better than The Islar. It's still not as good as Islandia, of course!
Experiments in Reading… (more)
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