The Warlord Chronicles · Book 3
Excalibur
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 435
- ISBN-13
- 9780718142926
- Type
- novel
About this book
Excalibur closed the trilogy in 1997, the shortest of the three at 435 pages, bringing the final wars and Arthur's downfall to their conclusion as narrated by the aging monk Derfel Cadarn looking back on his youth.
Its place in The Warlord Chronicles
Excalibur is book 3 in the The Warlord Chronicles series. It follows Enemy of God. See the full The Warlord Chronicles reading order.
The Warlord Chronicles is Bernard Cornwell's retelling of the King Arthur legend, stripped of magic and chivalric romance and rebuilt as gritty post-Roman history. The story is narrated decades after the fact by Derfel Cadarn, an aging monk and former warrior looking back on his youth as one of Arthur's sworn soldiers, and it reframes Arthur not as a crowned king but as a landless warlord holding fractured Britain together by force of will and force of arms while the rightful child-king Mordred grows into a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780718142926