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The Best of Rosemary Sutcliff: Warrior Scarlet / The Mark of the Horse Lord / Knight's Fee
The Best of Rosemary Sutcliff Warrior Scarlet / The Mark of the Horse Lord / Knight's Fee Author:Rosemary Sutcliff, Charles Keeping (Illustrator) Contains the complete text of 3 children's historical fiction stories: — Warrior Scarlet: In Bronze Age Britain, young Drem must overcome his disability -- a withered arm -- if he is to prove his manhood and become a warrior. — The Mark of the Horse Lord: Phaedrus, an enslaved gladiator in northern Britain in the first century, earns... more » his freedom by killing his best friend, a fellow gladiator, in a final fight to the death. He is made a breathtaking -- and breathtakingly dangerous -- offer: the chance to become king of a Gaelic kingdom.
Knight's Fee: In late eleventh-century England, Randal, a young orphan at Arundel Castle, is won by a minstrel in a chess game and finds his life transformed when he is sent to be companion and squire to the grandson of the kind Sir Everard of Dean.« less