The Black Swan (Gollancz S.F.)

by Mercedes Lackey (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.75

  Baron Eric von Rothbert is a powerful sorcerer who devotes his life to capturing women who inspire his wrath and transforming them into swans. Over the flock he sets his daughter Odile, gifted in magic, but still spurned by her father. Odette, noblest of the Baron's enchanted flock, wrests from their captor a promise which could lead to fredom for all the swan-maidens, but the Baron is determined to use all his magical cunning to avoid honouring that promise. Prince Siegfried comes upon the swan-maidens as day dissolves into dusk -- and the game takes on a new twist, for Siegfried is a selfish hedonist and dissolute womaniser ...

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $13.93

  The story of Swan Lake has enchanted generations: a monumental tale of loyalty and betrayal, of magic used for good and evil, of love both carnal and pure, and of the incredible duality of human nature as Prince Siegfried, a selfish hedonist and dissolute womaniser, comes across the swan maidens as day dissolves into dusk ...And then the woman he has wronged teaches him a lesson that will change the course of his life for ever ...Mercedes Lackey uses her own brilliant storytelling to breathe vibrant new life into an old favourite.