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A posthumous recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Marion Zimmer Bradley reinvented - and rejuvenated - the King Arthur mythos with her extraordinary Mists of Avalon series. In this epic work, Bradley follows the arc of the timeless tale from the perspective of its previously marginalized female characters: Celtic priestess Morgaine, Gwenhwyfar, and High Priestess Viviane.

Through the generations the women of Avalon prepare for the coming of the Defender, the sacred king who will guard the old ways of the Britons and save their land from destruction. On the holy isle of Avalon, hidden in the mists between the world of Faerie and the world of men, they wait. For High Priestess Caillean, facing the Roman foe, salvation comes not through victory, but bitter sacrifice.

Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods, and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War. Reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate is seen through the eyes of Kassandra—priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.

"Jadis on m'a donné les noms les plus divers : ceux de sœur, d'amante, de prêtresse, de mage et de reine." Morgane la Fée, prêtresse d'Avalon. Quand Viviane, prêtresse d'Avalon, arrive accompagnée du grand sage Merlin, Ygerne, femme du duc de Tintagel, ne peut contenir la joie de revoir sa sœur. Mais elle est de courte durée. La Dame du Lac lui annonce sa prochaine grossesse - fruit d'une union avec un autre homme - et le destin de l'enfant qu'elle portera : futur Haut Roi de Grande Bretagne, il unira et protégera les peuples présents sur ses terres.

When a British princess falls in love with a Roman officer destined for imperial greatness, their forbidden desire exacts an unexpected price: banishment from Avalon. Journeying outside the enchanted isle, Helena grows from maiden to mother to wisewoman, experiencing both joy---with the birth of her child---and loss, when politics forces her lover to choose between the Empire and her.

During the lawless Ages of Chaos, when the ruling families of Darkover ruthlessly inbred their laran-gifted offspring to gain powerful talents, a baby was born to the lord of Aldaran. This child, born on a dark and thunder-filled night, was possessed of a terrifying and uncontrolled talent: Dorilys, heiress to her father’s domain, could unwittingly call forth lightning, even while still a fretful child.

Bien avant la légende du roi Arthur et Camelot, Avalon était là, majestueuse terre arborant vallées dorées et brumes argentées. Sur cette île, siège de la Déesse Mère, trois prêtresses puissantes façonnent la destinée de l'Angleterre en luttant pour regagner la magie et les traditions d'un monde autrefois moins sombre. Acculées par les envahisseurs, pouvoirs et visions sont leurs seules armes dans ce combat pour la liberté.

She was Eilan, the daughter of a Druidic warleader and gifted with visions. In a land struggling to survive both Roman conquerors and her own people's enemies, surely fate had marked her to become a priestess of the Forest House. But first Eilan had chosen a different, forbidden path - to love Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood among the legions sent to subdue her country. So she must hide a terrible secret when she is anointed as the new High Priestess.

The colony ship from Earth had been on its way to the Coronis colony — a flourishing mining settlement — where crews of engineers and technicians had been working for 10 years preparing the planet for settlement and studying its ecology. But disaster had struck.

Bien des siècles avant la naissance du Roi Arthur et la venue des "Dames du Lac" dans l'Île d'Avalon, au temps de la conquête par Rome des terres voilées de brume de la Grande-Bretagne, vivait une jeune adolescente, Elane, fille d'un druide qui haïssait l'occupant. Aimant d'un amour interdit un jeune Romain qui, grâce à elle, a échappé à la mort, Elane est soudain appelée à succéder à la Haute Prêtresse, gardienne et protectrice des rites et des croyances de son peuple.

Au IIIe siècle, Eilan, fille d'une prêtresse et d'un prince de Grande-Bretagne, part sur l'île d'Avalon suivre l'apprentissage rare et magique réservé aux servantes de la Déesse. Au contact des femmes d'exception qui enseignent et règnent sur ce lieu mythique, l'enfant se familiarise avec les rites et les sortilèges, mais aussi avec les lois de cette lignée de magiciennes. En grandissant, elle découvre les rivalités et le courage nécessaire pour se forger une identité parmi ces condisciples ambitieuses.

When a bandit gang seizes High Windward, holding the Storn family hostage, the laran powers of the oldest son Loran are the family’s only hope. Reaching out with those powers, he finds a young Terran, Dan Barron, and “overshadows” his mind, sending him on a desperate rescue mission to Aldaran Castle.

In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, a legendary friendship is forged between king and keeper which will lead to a new destiny for Darkover.

In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, King Carolin of Hastur and his friend, Keeper Varzil Ridenow, work selflessly to put an end to the destruction caused by the long-range weapons of the magical matrix Towers. But Eduin Deslucido - who once called Carolin brother - has been consumed with a vengeful rage, and will stop at nothing to destroy the king and his plan for peace.

After the flaming final days of the Ages of Chaos, when the Keeper known as Varzil the Good struggled to bring peace to the warring Hundred Kingdoms through a law called the Compact, there were still those who fought against him for their own ends. And Bard Di Asturian, the outlaw known as The Wolf of the Kilghard Hills, would go to any extreme to bring all those near him under his brutal sway.

While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattels. But the Free Amazons are considered equal to men, and it is they who provide the key to the Terran-Darkover dilemma.

Romilly was an independent tomboy from a noble family, contrary to the social demands of Darkovan women. That was bad enough, but when Romilly’s father arranged her marriage to a nobleman she found repulsive, she rebelled. Disguising herself as a boy, she fled into the deep forests. Living off the land was not nearly as difficult for Romilly as for most people, for she possessed a rare and highly treasured gift — telepathic communication with hawk and horse.

Jeff Kerwin spent the first decade of his life in the Spacemen’s Orphanage in the Terran Trade City on Darkover. Yet he never felt that he belonged. When Jeff is shipped back to Earth at the age of 12, he becomes haunted by dreams of the world surrounding the Terran oasis that had once been his. He is convinced that only on Darkover can he discover his true identity.

For the Hunters, the Hunt was a religion. The Sacred Prey, sentient beings collected from all over the galaxy, were literally given a fighting chance - they were allowed to choose weapons from an armory with every imaginable weapon and given time to train. Then they were taken to the place of the Hunt, where death awaited them. Those who survived until the eclipse of the red moon, however, were honored by the Hunters and rewarded with all the wealth they could desire. The trick, of course, was surviving.

Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet’s wild terrain was unexplored...and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew Carr, there was an attraction he could not evade. Darkover drew him, Darkover haunted him — and when his mapping plane crashed in unknown heights, Darkover prepared to destroy him.