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Merlin dreams
By Dickinson, Peter & Lee, Alan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-44050-067-4
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, c1988.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1988
Gr 7-Up Dickinson knits together a collection of stories around the theme of Merlin. Rather than a T. H. White-washing of Mallory, Dickinson is concerned with the Celtic underpinnings of Arthurian Romance. His Merlin is a tribal priest, a bard, with a holy kind of secret knowledge. The book opens with the end of Merlin's life, when he is magically bound under a rock, where he dreams on into the centuries. Merlin, dreaming, gives readers these stories: of a rust-covered knight who fulfil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
