The Seven Songs of Merlin

by Barron, T. A.

• ISBN13: 9780441007011
• ISBN10: 0441007015
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Ace

Summary

Having stumbled upon his hidden powers, the young wizard Merlin voyages to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself and the way to the realm of the spirit.

Author Biography

T.A. Barron is the award-winning author of fantasy novels such as The Lost Years of Merlin epic—soon to be a major motion picture. He serves on a variety of environmental and educational boards including The Nature Conservancy and The Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, and is the founder of a national award for heroic children. Following a life-changing decision to leave a successful business career to write full-time in 1990, Barron has written seventeen books, but is happiest when on the mountain trails with his wife, Currie, and their five children.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	xi
Prologue	3	(16)
PART ONE
Rescuer	19	(7)
A Fitting Welcome	26	(9)
Warm Wind	35	(5)
Treasures	40	(8)
The Jester	48	(12)
Through the Mists	60	(11)
Headlong and Happily	71	(5)
The Language of the Wound	76	(8)
Rosemary	84	(7)
Arbassa's Secret	91	(4)
One Melody and Many	95	(10)
PART TWO
Tuatha	105	(9)
Strange Bedfellows	114	(6)
The Crystal Cave	120	(5)
Changing	125	(9)
Liquid Thrill	134	(4)
Binding	138	(8)
Light Flyer	146	(11)
Protecting	157	(5)
Rivers Cool and Warm	162	(8)
The Shriek	170	(5)
Ambrosia Bread	175	(9)
Naming	184	(10)
No Wings, No Hope	194	(7)
All the Voices	201	(6)
Leaping	207	(8)
Another Crossing	215	(6)
Eliminating	221	(14)
PART THREE
The Final Trek	235	(5)
Balor	240	(10)
Into the Mist	250	(4)
A Golden Bough	254	(8)
Wondrous Things	262	(9)
Elixir	271	(6)
A Wizard's Staff	277