Excalibur (novel)
For the novel by Bernard Cornwell, see Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur.
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Cover illustration by Gervasio Gallardo Excalibur | |
| Author | Sanders Anne Laubenthal |
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| Cover artist | Gervasio Gallardo |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Publication date | 1973 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | xii, 236 pp |
| ISBN | 0-345-23416-2 |
| OCLC | 2370651 |
Excalibur is a 1973 Arthurian fantasy novel by American writer Sanders Anne Laubenthal. It was first published by Ballantine Books as the sixtieth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August, 1973, and has been reprinted a number of times since.
Plot summary
The novel is set in modern times against the background of the legendary Medieval Welsh colonization of Mobile, Alabama under the prince Madoc in the 12th century. The modern Pendragon, King Arthur's secret successor, must recover Arthur's famed sword Excalibur.
Critical reception
John Clute praised Excalibur as "a powerful fantasy which conflates the matter of Britain with an American Gothic version of Mobile, Alabama."[1]
References
- ↑ "Laubenthal, Sanders Anne", The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, ed., p.565