The last magic. A bad afternoon. Prince and pilgrim. Stuart M.

Mary Stewart (1916-2014) in her young years gave a vow to devote her life to literature. And Fortune took her side. The first novel (“Madame, will you say?”) Came to the liking readers, and almost every new work of the English writer became a bestseller. But real success came to her in the 1970s, when the trilogy of the wizard Merlin and King Arthur (“Crystal Grotto”, “Hall Hills”, “Last Magic”), which combined history and science fiction and subsequently grew into pentalogy, was released. (The novels “Unkind Light” and “Prince and Pilgrim” were added). The writer herself defines her task simply:

“If the voice of legends is so persistent - if the motives are so tenacious and revive again and again, it means that they contain real grain, even in the most fantastic stories that have been layered around the core The meager facts of Arturov of existence. An exciting activity is to comprehend these sometimes wild and illogical plots, to give them the character of more or less coherent and believable stories about human actions and the world of imagination. ”