The Mists of Avalon

The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#1655 of 8,085 books · #271 in Historical Fiction

Won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1984). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Morgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change. Through the lives of pious Guinevere, ambitious Morgouse, austere Viviane and her successor as Lady of the Lake, Morgaine herself, this rich and haunting epic reveals a greater threat to the idyll than the Saxons. For the spread of patriarchal Roman ways and a narrow Christianity seem likely to alienate the Old People, and drive the ancient worship of the Mother forever into the mists...