An edition of The stone arrow (1978)

The stone arrow

The Pagan's Trilogy, Book 1

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An edition of The stone arrow (1978)

The stone arrow

The Pagan's Trilogy, Book 1

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Tribal honour and deadly revenge in Neolithic England.
Winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
Richard Herley's first, published novel.

Blurb from the first edition (1978):

When the men of Burh, settlers from continental Europe, fall upon the sleeping nomad tribe in the depths of the forest amid the Downs of southern England, Tagart is the only survivor, escaping by sheer chance after his wife and young son have been massacred. Twenty-five and heir to the chiefdom of the roving hunters, he sees his only inheritance now to be an overwhelming urge for merciless revenge - of his family, his tribe and indeed of a way of life which in the England of 5,000 years ago is steadily being eroded by these tillers of the soil.

Tagart's first objective for his single-handed work of retribution is the fortified village of Burh (in what is now known as the Cuckmere Valley), and the means he uses are more subtle and deadly than any traditional form of attack. This story of his revenge, his subsequent savage enslavement by the new lords of the land and his escape with Segle, the beautiful sister of another captive, introduces a new author of considerable significance.

Richard Herley writes with acute sense of place, of wind and weather, of wild life and of the background of Stone Age England when the countryside is in its last virgin state before civilization begins.

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Cover of: Stone Arrow
Stone Arrow
November 14, 1988, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The stone arrow
The stone arrow
1981, Granada
in English
Cover of: The Stone arrow
The Stone arrow
1979, St. Martin's Press
in English
Cover of: The stone arrow
The stone arrow
1978, Morrow
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: The stone arrow
The stone arrow: The Pagan's Trilogy, Book 1
Publish date unknown, P. Davies (London, 1978); Now available in eBook formats at RichardHerley.com
in English

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First Sentence

""Tagart came out of the woods and stood facing the broad downhill sweep of the cereal field." ..."

Edition Notes

Now available in downloadable eBook; multiple formats available at RichardHerley.com

Genre
Action / Adventure

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PZ4.H549 St, PR6058.E65 St

The Physical Object

Pagination
[4], 220 p. ;
Number of pages
220

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4286978M
ISBN 10
0432066756
LCCN
78313818
OCLC/WorldCat
4057104
Library Thing
862629
Goodreads
4422457

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