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tristan (legendary character)

The ballad of Sir Dinadan

Though he would rather pursue his talent as a musician, eighteen-year-old Dinadan is forced to follow his older brother Tristram's path and become a knight. Set at the time of King Arthur.

The king in the tree

three novellas
2003
Presents three novellas, one about a woman who takes revenge upon her dead husband's former lover; the second a romantic tale about a love lesson learned by Don Juan on a country estate in England; and the third a retelling of the tragedy of Tristan and Iseult.

Brazil

1996

Tristan & Iseult

1991
Retells the Celtic legend of the love between the warrior Tristan and Iseult, the wife of King Marc of Cornwall.

Tristan and Iseult

1971
Retells the Celtic legend of the love between the warrior Tristan and Iseult, the wife of King Marc of Cornwall.

The romance of Tristan and Iseult

1994
Presents an English translation of the Celtic legend of the love between the Tristan, a Cornish knight, and Iseult, an Irish princess.

Isolde

queen of the Western Isle
2002
Isolde, a healer, falls instantly in love when she is called upon to secretly treat Sir Tristan of Lyonesse, who was injured in battle against her Queen mother's troops, but the young lovers find themselves caught in the crosscurrents of fate when Isolde is promised in marriage to Tristan's uncle, the King of Cornwall.

The lady of the sea

the third of the Tristan and Isolde novels
2004
Isolde, heir to the throne of the queens, leaves her marriage to King Mark of Cornwall to return to her beloved Western Isle, where she faces a growing threat from a neighboring kingdom's ruthless king.

The maid of the white hands

the second of the Tristan and Isolde novels
2003
Isolde is trapped in a loveless marriage to the mean-spirited King Mark of Cornwell but finds a means of escape when her life becomes linked with a physician in France who shares her name.

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