The Warlord Chronicles · Book 1
The Winter King
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9781405928328
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Winter King opens Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles in 1995 at 512 pages, narrated by aging monk Derfel Cadarn as he recalls Arthur returning to Britain as a landless warlord holding the realm together for the child-king Mordred.
Its place in The Warlord Chronicles
The Winter King is book 1 in the The Warlord Chronicles series. It is followed by 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 9781405928328