The Brothers of Gwynedd · Book 2
The Dragon at Noonday
- Published
- 1 January 1975
- Pages
- 340
- ISBN-13
- 9780333185216
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Dragon at Noonday followed a year later, in 1975, at 340 pages, continuing Samson's chronicle of the brothers of Gwynedd as Edith Pargeter traces the Welsh princes' shifting alliances against the expanding power of the English crown.
Its place in The Brothers of Gwynedd
The Dragon at Noonday is book 2 in the The Brothers of Gwynedd series. It follows Sunrise in the West. It is followed by The Hounds of Sunset. See the full The Brothers of Gwynedd reading order.
Edith Pargeter's second major historical quartet, written under her own name rather than her Ellis Peters pen name, dramatizes the real thirteenth-century struggle of the Welsh princes of Gwynedd to hold Wales independent against the expanding power of the English crown. Narrated by Samson, a fictional clerk and confidant in the household of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the four novels — Sunrise in the West (1974), The Dragon at Noonday (1975), The Hounds of Sunset (1976) and Afterglow and Nightfall (1977) — trace the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780333185216
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780426177180