![]() ![]() Merlin indicates, at the beginning of this chapter, at this time in his. ![]() THE CRYSTAL CAVE was ahead of its time when Mary Stewart decided to tell the Arthurian Legend from the point of view of Merlin. The Crystal Cave: FREE BOOK REVIEW / LITERARY ANALYSIS by Mary Stewart. If you’re trying to introduce friends to fantasy, this is a benign first step. And this is his.The Crystal Cave is the first of Mary Stewart's brilliant Arthurian Saga, telling the story of King Arthur from the perspective of the extraordinary, mysterious Merlin.The Hollow Hills (Merlin Trilogy 2) Born on Christmas Eve, Arthur Pendragon is the illegitimate son of the married duchess Ygraine and Uther Pendragon, brother of. ![]() The books are still in print and are available in even small libraries due to their popularity. The quality of the writing and storytelling hasn’t diminished with age, likely because of the care Stewart took to research her subject and the locales. ![]() I first read this series when I was in middle school and have read it several times since, including the two Arthur-focused books after the Merlin trilogy. Told in first-person PoV as though it were an autobiography, Stewart writes about Merlin’s childhood as he travels across Britain, the people he encounters, and the discovery of his magic–all in her lovely prose with detailed attention to the landscape and era. The first book of Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, THE CRYSTAL CAVE ( Amazon), was written in 1970 and continues to be one of the most accessible novelizations of the mythos surrounding the Arthurian legends. ![]()
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