Les Dames du lac, tome 2 : Les brumes d'Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mists of Avalon (Collections and Selections — 3-4), Avalon, Chronological Order (Translated Editions — )
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'In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen' Morgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change. Through the lives of pious Guinevere, ambitious Morause, Priestess of Avalon Viviane and her successor as Lady of the Lake, Morgaine herself, this rich and haunting epic show more reveals a greater threat to the Old People than the Saxons. For the spread of patriarchal Roman ways and a narrow Christianity seem likely to drive the ancient worship of the Mother forever into the mists... show lessTags
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Superbement inspirée de la légende arthurienne, insistant sur l'omniprésence et le rôle des femmes : reine, prêtresse, fée... on plonge avec délice dans les anciennes croyances et les rites de la Grande-Bretagne !
Superbement inspirée de la légende arthurienne, insistant sur l'omniprésence et le rôle des femmes : reine, prêtresse, fée... on plonge avec délice dans les anciennes croyances et les rites de la Grande-Bretagne !
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Magnifique suite que l'on a plaisir à dévorer ! Vous saurez tout sur les aventures extraordinaires de Morgane et d'Arthur !
Magnifique suite que l'on a plaisir à dévorer ! Vous saurez tout sur les aventures extraordinaires de Morgane et d'Arthur !
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Marion Zimmer Bradley is a science-fiction and fantasy writer, novelist, and editor. She was born in Albany, New York on June 3, 1930. Bradley attended the New York State College for Teachers from 1946 to 1948. She earned a B.A. from Hardin Simmons University in 1964. Bradley did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley from 1965 show more to 1967. Bradley sold her first story to Fantastic Amazing Stories as part of an amateur fiction contest. She sold her first professional story to Vortex Science Fiction in 1952. Her novels include The Sword of Aldones and The Planet Savers. Both novels were set on Darkover, the setting for more than 20 subsequent Bradley novels. Bradley also wrote The Mists of Avalon, a reworking of the King Arthur legend with more emphasis on the female characters. She used the same approach with The Firebrand, which was based on The Iliad. In addition to writing more than 85 books, Bradley was the editor of an annual anthology for DAW Books, as well as the editor of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine. Bradley died in 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) Marion Zimmer Bradley was the bestselling author of "The Mists of Avalon", "Lady of Avalon", "The Forest House", & "The Firebrand", as well as the popular Darkover series of science fiction novels. She died in 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Mists of Avalon
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Avalon, Chronological Order
8 works (Translated Editions — )
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- Canonical title*
- Les Brumes d'Avalon
- Original title
- The Mists of Avalon
- Original publication date
- 1983
- Related movies*
- The Mists of Avalon (2001 | IMDb)
- Original language*
- Anglais (Etats-Unis) (Etats-Unis)
- Disambiguation notice
- This version of "The Mists of Avalon" was split in 2, this is 2/2. Only combine with similarly split versions.
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