Click on image to enlarge.

	Regular				Club
You Pay:	$0.59				$0.50

eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Merlin is a character who appears in every version of the King Arthur legend. But who--and what--was he really?

eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, Published: TV Guide, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: February 2009

21 Reader Ratings:

Great	Good	OK	Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [10 KB] , ePub (EPUB) [25 KB] , Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [6 KB] , Portable Document Format (PDF) [150 KB] , Palm Doc (PDB) [5 KB] , Microsoft Reader (LIT) [54 KB] , Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [75 KB] , hiebook (KML) [42 KB] , Sony Reader (LRF) [34 KB] , iSilo (PDB) [4 KB] , Mobipocket (PRC) [6 KB] , Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [34 KB] , OEBFF Format (IMP) [13 KB]
Words: 1502
Reading time: 4-6 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Portable Document Format (PDF) Format:  Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED

Of all the characters in the Arthurian saga only Arthur and Merlin are immortal in any sense other than the literary. Arthur, of course, is the warrior, the king who was and who will be, who lies in enchanted slumber until Britain has need of him again. Merlin is something else entirely, something much more mysterious.

Over the centuries the story has been told and retold and told again, often with a widely varying cast of characters. Knights, priests and priestess, kings and queens, and various users of magic come and go, but always there is Arthur, the sun around which all else revolves, his faithless wife (Guinevere), his equally-faithless best friend (Lancelot), the illegitimate son (Mordred) who becomes his bane--and Merlin. Whatever his role, Merlin is always there; and it is always clear that Arthur could not have existed, survived, or become King without him. But Merlin's role is mostly in the background. He's visible, but no one is quite certain exactly what he has done or is doing. If Arthur is the sun, perhaps Merlin is gravity, keeping the dance of the spheres in place and at tempo, or trying to do so and occasionally failing in spots--after all, it's such a great task.