Kolumna ludzi wśród gór posuwała się naprzód jak błyszczący, srebrzysty wąż, cętkowany szkarłatnymi płaszczami i grzebieniami oficerów. (…) Mgła ścieliła się naokoło nich i w końcu ich zasłoniła, jakby przeszli do innego świata.
Dziewiąty Legion wyruszył ku mglistym rubieżom północnej Brytanii i więcej go nie widziano. Cztery tysiące żołnierzy przepadło bez wieści, a razem z nimi ich sztandar.
Marek, rzymski centurion, postanawia zgłębić tajemnicę zaginionego legionu, którym przed laty dowodził jego ojciec. Udaje się więc na śmiertelnie niebezpieczną wyprawę w nieznane strony, zamieszkane przez wrogie plemiona. Nikt nie spodziewa się, że kiedykolwiek wróci…
„Dziewiąty Legion” został okrzyknięty jedną z najwspanialszych książek młodzieżowych XX w. i sprzedał się na świecie w nakładzie przeszło miliona egzemplarzy.
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Category: Novels, Stories & Books
Rosemary Sutcliff was an internationally renowned writer of historical novels, for children, young adults and adults. She also wrote stories for children. This category compiles the posts on this blog by title.
The Eagle is Not Your ‘Average Gone with the Wind’ Film
Goodness knows how it feels actually to make a film like The Eagle and put it out there, for critics and viewers to have their say – an ever more public say, with the internet. I find myself fiercely protective of the film (which I have seen once at a preview – and loved it, not just because I have to!) And of the film-makers, although they need no protection from me. At times they get criticised for what, to me, is actually all part of capturing the essence of Rosemary’s story and feel for it so well. But this concluding sentence of one broadly supportive New York review, with its comment that Rosemary Sutcliff‘s wonderful, beautifully told story was ‘tired’ , definitely got me going about the book, let alone the film!
The film won’t be taking home any big awards but it deserves credit for being enjoyable and for trying to make a tired story be a little more original. (Rating: Three out of five stars).
via The Eagle is Not Your Average Gone with the Wind – Film & Television – AllMediaNY.
Boys Rule Boys Read! goes WOW about The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutclliff
Over there (from here in England) at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library they work very energetically to encourage boys to read, and they are really, really enthusiastic about Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth
Wow.Wow …. Have you ever sat in a theatre after a movie was over, stunned and unable to get up because the movie was so great? Doesn’t happen often, does it? Well, books as great as The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff don’t come along that often either. And just like a great movie, this book left me sitting there going, “Wow.”The whole purpose of this blog is to tell you about terrific books, so I’m going to tell you guys right now that his is one terrific book!
Source: Boys Rule Boys Read!: The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutclliff.
And the in their view the book is excellent for group discussions: Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth in at least 15 languages
Rosemary Sutcliff is, as the readers and commenters on this blog attest, an internationally read and respected writer for children aged 8 to 88, of historical novels and other stories. As well as being published in English for the UK and Eire, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, US and Canada, and readers of English everywhere, I believe The Eagle of the Ninth or some of the so-styled ‘trilogy’ (The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers) are published or about-to-be published internationally in these languages:
Brazillian Portuguese – Editora Record
Dutch – Facet
French – Gallimard
German – Verlag Freis Geistesleben
Greek – Aiora
Italian – Mondadori
Japan – Iwanami
Korean – Sigongsa
Portuguese – Gradiva
Romanian – Litera
Russian – Azbooka
Spanish – Plataforma
Swedish – Forlaget Barnstenen
Turkish – Ithaki
The Shining Company award-winning novel by Rosemary Sutcliff
See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered flat again, and maybe yet again, many times for the finest blades … So the hard and soft iron are mingled without blending, before the blade is hammered up to its finished form and tempered, and ground to an edge that shall draw blood from the wind. So comes the pattern, like oil and water that mingle but do not mix. Yet it is the strength of the blade, for without the hard iron the blade would bend in battle, and without the soft iron it would break.
Source: Goodreads quotations from Rosemary Sutcliff
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 