by Bernard Cornwell · Arnoldo Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804448266
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«Il re d'inverno» is the first historical novel in Bernard Cornwell's «Il Romanzo di Excalibur» saga, published by Arnoldo Mondadori in paperback (403 pages, in Italian).
The work recreates the death of Uther, king of Britain, and the regency that Artù assumes to protect the heir, the child Mordred, against Saxon invasions and internal struggles among the British kingdoms. His relationship with Guinevere triggers a conflict that will mark the kingdom's fate.
It is the first installment of «Il Romanzo di Excalibur», a series known in English as «The Warlord Chronicles»; the original title, «The Winter King», was published in 1995.
For readers of historical fiction and Arthurian fiction seeking a realistic reconstruction of post-Roman Britain.
Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England.
