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le Fay was not married, but put to school in a nunnery, where she became a
great mistress of magic." (Malory, Morte d'Arthur)
The late Marion Zimmer Bradley's book is arguably the most popular of all the Arthurian novels to be published in the 20th century. While TH White's Once and Future King will be read by thousands of American schoolchildren every year, The Mists of Avalon spent four months on the New York bestsellers list in hardcover and won the 1984 Locus award for Best fantasy. Although lacks the greatly descriptive battle scenes and grittiness of later historical based literature, it has a mystical and almost dreamlike quality to it. AC "the best retelling of the Arthurian Saga I have ever read" (Isaac Asimov) It was made for television in 2001 but received a critical mauling. |
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