本書為「亞法隆迷霧」四部曲的完結篇。摩根終於體認到自己身為亞法隆最高女祭司的使命感，企圖以自己的方式讓傳統的女神信仰得以抗衡一面倒向基督信仰統治的卡美洛宮廷。長大的莫桀來到亞法隆接受祭司訓練，致力為亞法隆奪回政治力量。然而，摩根、莫桀與新任的梅林大師凱文，為何選擇不同的手段，導致彼此反目成仇，種下悲劇之因？為何凱文會成為亞法隆的叛徒？莫桀又如何在謀略之路上走岔，一手導演出最後的悲劇？這一切，究竟是女神的旨意還是她們自己的欲望？亞法隆的命運是遭人遺忘，還是自有其意義？
本書細膩而深刻地描繪出亞瑟王傳奇背後，看似隱晦不明的女性角色，卻是影響亞瑟王傳奇建立與顛覆的重要推手。女性不再只是妝點亞瑟王傳奇的美麗花瓶。

懷了亞瑟之子的摩根，自我流放，逃離亞法隆的使命多年之後，逐漸明白自己擔任亞法隆祭司、執行女神旨意的使命。她想尋找新的鹿王，能守護德魯伊信仰的宗主：但她的堅強意志能否助她貫徹女神的旨意？那究竟是神諭，還是她自己的意志與欲望？
本書細膩而深刻地描繪出亞瑟王傳奇背後，看似隱晦不明的女性角色，卻是影響亞瑟王傳奇建立與顛覆的重要推手。女性不再只是妝點亞瑟王傳奇的美麗花瓶。

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Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....

台大外文系學士，輔仁大學翻譯研究所碩士，英國劍橋大學及聖安德魯大學進修，現為自由譯者，譯有《彼得潘》、《巫婆一定得死》、《滅頂與生還》、《躁鬱奇才》、《愛上工作》、《時間不等鼠》、《心理治療的道德責任》、《生命的哲思》等。

桂妮薇在偶然之下與藍斯洛一見鍾情，卻在父親安排下嫁給亞瑟王。她愛藍斯洛，也敬愛亞瑟，虔誠的基督信仰折磨桂妮薇的良心；藍斯洛愛著她，但敬愛亞瑟王的心使他無法脫離這段畸戀。在命運作弄之下，他們三人逐漸墮入未知的悲劇深淵……
本書細膩而深刻地描繪出亞瑟王傳奇背後，看似隱晦不明的女性角色，卻是影響亞瑟王傳奇建立與顛覆的重要推手。女性不再只是妝點亞瑟王傳奇的美麗花瓶。

An omnibus volume of three classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels-Star of Danger, The Bloody Sun, and Winds of Darkover-tell of two men of mixed Darkovan ancestry, who must choose where their true allegiances lie.

The first in a series of omnibus volumes of Marion Zimmer Bradley's best-selling Darkover series, Heritage and Exile includes the two most powerful and important novels in this groundbreaking saga.
Nominated for a Hugo Award, and described as "Bradley's best [Darkover] novel" by Locus, The Heritage of Hastur tells the complex and compelling tale of the early life of Regis Hastur, Darkover's greatest monarch. It also spins the terrifying and heartbreaking story of those who sought to control the deadly Sharra Matrix, and of how Lew Alton met and lost his greatest love, Marjorie Scott.
The most dangerous magical implement on all of Darkover was the infamous, legendary Sharra Matrix. The Sharra Matrix had been exiled offworld in the protective custody of Comyn Lord Lew Alton. But when Lew was called back to Darkover to contest his rights, he had no choice but to bring this dangerous matrix back with him. Once the Sharra Matrix was back, her flaming image spread far and wide, setting in motion events which would change the lands, the seven Domains, and the future of Darkover forever.
"Literate and exciting." (The New York Times Book Review)

Marion Zimmer Bradley's beloved Avalon saga continues with the dramatic story of the ancestors of Avalon, from their life on the doomed island of Atlantis to their escape to the mist-shrouded isle of Britain.

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 seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.

The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne.

“A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. From their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies, we follow these women and the diverse cast of characters that surrounds them as the great Arthurian epic unfolds stunningly before us. As Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar struggle for control over the fate of Arthur's kingdom, as the Knights of the Round Table take on their infamous quest, as Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain, the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory, until the fissure between old and new worlds' and old and new religions' claims its most famous victim.

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's reworking of the powerful Arthurian epic, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. There is Morgaine, an intense woman gifted with the Sight, who has sworn to keep the old religion alive against the growing tide of Christianity that threatens her way of life - even if it means fighting a deadly battle against her beloved brother. And the devout Gwenhwyfar, married to Arthur out of a sense of duty, determined to bring Britain into the light of her God.
From their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies, we follow these women and the diverse cast of characters that surrounds them as the great Arthurian epic unfolds stunningly before us. As Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar struggle for control over the fate of Arthur's kingdom, as the Knights of Round Table take on their infamous quest, as Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain, the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory, until the fissure between old and new worlds - and old and new religions - claims its most famous victim.

The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne.

“A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. From their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies, we follow these women and the diverse cast of characters that surrounds them as the great Arthurian epic unfolds stunningly before us.

As Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar struggle for control over the fate of Arthur's kingdom, as the Knights of the Round Table take on their infamous quest, as Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain, the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory, until the fissure between old and new worlds' and old and new religions' claims its most famous victim.

Neste romance, a lenda do rei Artur é contada pela primeira vez através das vidas, das visões e da percepção das mulheres que nela tiveram um papel central. Pela primeira vez, o mundo arturiano de Avalon e Camelot, com todas as suas paixões e aventuras - o mundo que, através dos séculos, cada geração recriou em incontáveis obras de ficção, poesia, drama - é revelado, como se poderia esperas, pelas suas heroínas - pela rainha Guinevere, mulher de Artur; por Igraine, mãe de Artur; por Viviane, a impressionante Senhora do Lago, Grande Sacerdotisa de Avalon; e principalmente pela irmã de Artur, Morgana, também conhecida como Morgana das Fadas existia uma parcial ligação, como a Fada Morgana - como feiticeira, como bruxa - e que nesta épica versão da lenda desempenha um papel crucial, tanto na coroação como na destruição de Artur. Trata-se, acima de tudo, da história de um profundo conflito entre o cristianismo e a velha religião de Avalon.

Arrow Books, 1979. British paperback reprint. First published in 1971, a "Darkover" tale.

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.

Until the planet's magic asserted itself--and his destiny began to unfold along lines predicted only by phantoms and wonder workers of the kind Terran science could never acknowledge.

THE SPELL SWORD is a Darkover novel to stand with the great ones of the series.

A Rainha Suprema é a belíssima Gwenhwyfar, que vive dividida entre a fidelidade que deve ao Rei Supremo, o rei Arthur, com quem se casou, e a enorme paixão que sente por Lancelet, cavaleiro invencível, capitão de cavalaria dos exércitos e o amigo mais íntimo do seu marido. E não sabe, Gwenhwyfar, se é o respeito pelo juramento que fez no dia do seu casamento ou o temor de pecar contra os mandamentos de Cristo – de quem é fervorosa seguidora – ou ambos, o que a impede de consumar por actos o que em pensamentos, não consegue evitar. É tão ardente o seu desejo de que Cristo triunfe na Terra que não hesitará em persuadir o rei Arthur a trair o juramento que fizera de lutar sob o estandarte real de Pendragon, tudo fazendo para que a decisiva batalha contra os saxões seja travada unicamente sob o estandarte da Cruz de Cristo, que ela mesma bordou.
Mas maior do que a angústia de uma paixão impossível é o sofrimento em que vive, por não conseguir consumar o seu casamento oferecendo um filho ao rei. Nem os mistérios insondáveis de Deus são conforto suficiente para tanta dor e sofrimento.

E é nesta angústia, ou, quem sabe, na secreta esperança de, sem pecar, poder consumar a sua paixão ardente dando à luz um herdeiro ao reino, que a bela Gwenhwyfar decide entregar-se nas mãos da Deusa. Mas, se são difíceis de compreender os caminhos de Deus, o que poderá acontecer quando se procura modificá-los com encantamentos e magias?

Book Three of the Mists of Avalon series inolves the imaginative retelling of the Arthurian legend, centering around the pagan priestesses of Avalon, who compete for the soul of Great Britain against the rising tide of Christianity.
"The King Stag" takes the listener deeper into the political/religious rivalry in the years following Arthurs coronation. Gwenhwyfar, in possession of a terrible secret, manipulates her husband to secure his loyalty to the Christian church, while Vivians decision to confront Arthur over his betrayal of Avalon results in tragedy.
Behind the scenes, Morgaine arranges the marriage of Lancelet, who has become desperate over the hopeless triangle at Camelot. When Gwenhwyfar hears of his marriage, she vows revenge. Through her own marriage to Uriens of North Wales, Morgaine works to strengthen the cause of Avalon. She returns briefly to the Isle of Mists, only to discover that the time is not yet ripe for her to reign. Book Three concludes with the arrival of young Gwydion (Mordred) on the scene.

Morgana e Guinevere lutam pelo poder, usando Artur para promover as suas respectivas visões de mundo. As intrigas e a política do reino de Camelot descritas em As Brumas de Avalon se passam quando o Cristianismo começa a dominar a ilha-nação da Bretanha, estabelecendo o conflito com os cultos pagãos.