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David Gemmell

    1 août 1948 – 28 juillet 2006

    David Gemmell fut un auteur britannique de premier plan dans le genre de la fantasy héroïque, dont les œuvres se caractérisent par une action brute et de profonds dilemmes moraux. Fort de son expérience journalistique, il a apporté à ses histoires un réalisme cru qui contrastait avec des thèmes intemporels d'honneur, de loyauté et de rédemption. Son style littéraire, plein de tension et de scènes souvent dures, explore la complexité de la nature humaine dans des conditions extrêmes. Bien que ses personnages soient souvent aux prises avec la violence, leurs parcours les mènent à une quête incessante de rédemption et d'accomplissement.

    Hero in the Shadows
    Shield of thunder
    The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend
    The Swords of Night and Day
    Troy: Fall of Kings
    Stones of Power: The Omnibus Edition
    • 2019

      LEGEND THE COLLECTORS EDITION

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      The Legend ... Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy, death. The Fortress ... Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through the mountains. It was the stronghold of the Drenai empire. And now it was the last battleground, for all else had fallen before the Nadir hordes. And hope rested on the skills of that one old man.

      LEGEND THE COLLECTORS EDITION
    • 2014
    • 2014

      Hawk Queen: The Omnibus Edition

      • 656pages
      • 23 heures de lecture

      The Hawk Queen: Omnibus Edition includes David Gemmell's classic fantasy novels Ironhand's Daughter and The Hawk Eternal

      Hawk Queen: The Omnibus Edition
    • 2013
    • 2007
    • 2007

      Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is fiercely divided. On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to the Mykene, who knows that he must soon face his former friends in deadly combat. Within the city, the Trojan king waits. Ailing and bitter, his hope is pinned on two heroes: his favourite son Hektor, and the dread Helikaon who will wreak terrible vengeance for the death of his wife at Mykene hands. War has been declared -- a war filled with bloodlust, and peopled by heroes who will live forever in a story that will echo down the centuries. From the Paperback edition

      Troy: Fall of Kings
    • 2006

      In den blutgetränkten Landen der Drenai beschützt die lebende Legende Druss das Land. Gemeinsam mit dem Helden Skilgannon, der mythische Schwerter führt, kämpfen sie gegen monströse Wesen. Ihre Allianz entwickelt sich zu einer tiefen Freundschaft, die ihr Schicksal und das der Drenai für immer verändern wird.

      Der weiße Wolf. Die Drenai-Saga, Bd. 10
    • 2006

      The second novel in David Gemmell's bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, and high adventure, this is epic storytelling at its very best. The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come. Shiled of thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze Age Greece, reuniting the characters from Lord of the silver bow; the dread Helikaon and his great love, the fiery Andromache, the mighty Hektor and the fabled storyteller, Odysseus.

      Shield of thunder