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The Arthur Trilogy, Book One

The Seeing Stone

by Kevin Crossley-Holland · October 2, 2001

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In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

MagicJuvenile fictionFictionMiddle AgesIdentityHistoryChildren's fictionArthur, king, fictionGreat britain, fictionSocial life and customsManners and customsEngland, fiction