Language English Media type Print (hardcover) ISBN 0-345-23416-2 Originally published 1973 Genre Fantasy literature Cover artist Gervasio Gallardo | Publication date 1973 Pages xii, 236 pp OCLC 2370651 Publisher Ballantine Books Country United States of America | |
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Excalibur is a 1973 Arthurian fantasy novel by American writer Sanders Anne Laubenthal. It was first published by Ballantine Books as the sixtieth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August, 1973, and has been reprinted a number of times since.
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Plot summary
The novel is set in modern times against the background of the legendary Medieval Welsh colonization of Mobile, Alabama under the prince Madoc in the 12th century. The modern Pendragon, King Arthur's secret successor, must recover Arthur's famed sword Excalibur.
Critical reception
John Clute praised Excalibur as "a powerful fantasy which conflates the matter of Britain with an American Gothic version of Mobile, Alabama."
References
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