Rosemary Sutcliffová bola britská autorka, známa najmä svojim pútavým historickým románom, ktorý oslovuje čitateľov všetkých vekových kategórií. S precíznosťou oživovala minulosť, pričom jej diela vynikajú atmosférou a hĺbkou. Jej jedinečný štýl spočíva v prepojení historických udalostí s emocionálnymi príbehmi. Sutcliffová dokázala prostredníctvom svojich kníh vtiahnuť čitateľov do minulosti.
Kdo by neznal Homérovu slavnou Íliadu? Toto je její přepis obohacený o několik dramatických scén ohledně rozvoje jednotlivých postav. Kniha je vyzdobena spousty krásných ilustrací od Alana Lee. Dodávají jí osobitost a reálnost.
The shadow of the approaching Dark Ages hangs over this last of the Roman novels. Rome’s legacy is finally decaying, the regular legions have been withdrawn, and Saxon raiding parties are invading the British countryside. As commander of a cavalry troop, young Aquila has been ordered to leave, but he has grown to love Britain and stays on, only to see his father’s farm torched by the Saxons, his father and the household servants murdered and his sister Flavia abducted. Aquila himself is captured and spends years as slave to a Saxon clan, but as the darkness gathers over Britain, it only strengthens his determination to avenge his family and keep Roman values alive. 1959 Carnegie Medal winner.
Om de eer van zijn verdwenen vader te redden gaat een jonge Romein met zijn Britse vriend in het Brittannië van de 2e eeuw op zoek naar de verdwenen standaard van zijn vaders legioen.
This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war - and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the braiding of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imagination and hypnotic narrative skill comes a novel that has richly earned its reputation as a classic.
In the sixth century A.D. the Saxons ruled Southern England. After the great battle of Aquae Sulis, Owain, injured, wakes to find his father and brother killed during the fight. On the battlefield the only other living thing is a lean and hungry dog. This story covers the twelve years following the battle and describes the life and adventures of Owain during this time of historic change in the annals of England.
This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play is an account of Boudicca's rebellion against the Romans.
Blue Remembered Hills is Rosemary Sutcliff's memoir of her childhood, youth and her first love affairs. It's a classic of perfect writing about her close and not always easy relationship with her bipolar mother, life in the naval dockyards where her father was based, and the beloved family dogs, interspersed with her stoic endurance of physical and emotional pain. Sutcliff writes with joy about her fleeting childhood friendships in a lonely life as an only child. Her lyrical descriptions of the beauty around their remote house in Devon distract the reader from realising the excruciating clinical treatment Sutcliff underwent for years to repair the damage caused by Still's Disease on her joints. She describes how her isolation and her awareness of being physically different informed some of her best-loved novels, as did her early love affairs.
