The Wicked Day
1983 novel by Mary Stewart
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The Wicked Day is the fourth novel in Mary Stewart's treatment of Arthurian legend.[1] It was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1983. It is preceded in the pentalogy by The Last Enchantment (1979), and succeeded by The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995).
Overview
The protagonists of the story are Mordred and his father the king, Arthur. Lost as a youth, Mordred is raised by fisherfolk until he is returned to his birth mother Morgause. The novel portrays Mordred as a pawn of fate unlike many tales which paint him as the villain of the Arthurian saga.
The novel covers the time after Merlin's self-imposed exile and stretches to the deaths of Mordred and Arthur.
References
- ^ Thames, Nell (23 October 1983). "'Wicked Day' continues Arthurian saga". The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi). p. 86.
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Novels by Mary Stewart
- The Crystal Cave (1970)
- The Hollow Hills (1973)
- The Last Enchantment (1979)
- The Wicked Day (1983)
- The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)
- Madam, Will You Talk? (1954)
- Wildfire at Midnight (1956)
- Thunder on the Right (1957)
- Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
- My Brother Michael (1959)
- The Ivy Tree (1961)
- The Moon-Spinners (1962)
- This Rough Magic (1964)
- Airs Above the Ground (1965)
- The Gabriel Hounds (1967)
- The Wind Off the Small Isles (1968)
- The Little Broomstick (1971)
- Ludo and the Star Horse (1974)
- Touch Not the Cat (1976)
- A Walk in Wolf Wood (1980)
- Thornyhold (1988)
- Frost on the Window: And other Poems (1990)
- Stormy Petrel (1991)
- Rose Cottage (1997)
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