<i>Sword at Sunset</i> is a 1963 book by Rosemary Sutcliff, part of her <i>The Eagle of the Ninth</i> series. It is a modern interpretation of the legends of King Arthur. This is the first novel that Ms Sutcliff wrote using a first-person singular point...
In the best historical novels, history goes out of the window and love remains. So it is in Rosemary Sutcliff's new novel "Sword at Sunset"—which is only theoretically concerned with King Arthur. As history, it is unconvincing. Miss Sutcliff's king has almost nothing to do with the familiar Arthur of folklore. She has reinvented him, given him a character of her own choosing and placed him outside the accepted legends altogether—in a closed world where nothing happe...
