This story, full of courage, love and sadness, tells about those years when the world of the Christian god had not yet supplanted the world of fairies from the canvas of times, and magic was an everyday thing. When King Arthur, enthroned by the Lady of Avalon, broke his oath and thereby changed the fate of Britain once and for all, when Fata Morgana was still called simply Morgaine, Duchess of Cornwall, and was not considered an evil witch, and when the secret course of the rivers of life was still subject to the will of the initiates. Now everyone thinks that these are legends composed by sweet-tongued bards in the hope of shelter and the favor of kings. But that was all. And that’s how it was. American and European science fiction fans put the novel “The Mists of Avalon” on a par with J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”

Marion Zimmer BradleyTHE MISTS OF AVALON1982 Eksmo Publishing House, 2002. - 1024 p. (Masterpieces of Fiction Series).ISBN 5-699-01653-8