Gerfalcon (novel)

Gerfalcon  
Author(s) Leslie Barringer
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Neustrian Cycle
Genre(s) Historical Fantasy novel
Publisher William Heinemann Ltd
Publication date 1927
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 315 pp
Preceded by none
Followed by Joris of the Rock (1928)

Gerfalcon is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the first book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle. It is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom). The book was first published in 1927 by Heinemann in the United Kingdom and Doubleday in the United States. Its significance was recognized by its republication in 1973 by Tom Stacey in the UK and in March, 1976 by the Newcastle Publishing Company in the US, as the seventh volume of its celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series. This Newcastle edition was reprinted twice, once by Newcastle itself in 1977 and once by Borgo Press in 1980.

Chapter headings of the 1927 edition:

  1. Shadows at Sanctbastre.
  2. Tourney at Belsaunt.
  3. The moors of Nordenay.
  4. The Singing Stones of Hastain.
  5. The hold above Alanol.
  6. Face Campscapel face death.
  7. The forest of Honoy.
  8. Parley at Montenair.
  9. Assay towards Saulte.
  10. Street of Anvils.
  11. A viscount comes home.
  12. Raoul's day.
  13. The marshes of Marckmont.
  14. The crags of Ger.

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