The Arcadian A Novel
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Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
26.05.2026
Verlag
W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
304 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
639 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781324124269
The best-selling author of Gates of Fire and A Man at Arms presents a gripping, genre-bending story of a mercenary in late medieval Spain and the eternal costs of violence.
Spain, the 1500s. The Iberian Peninsula is splintered by faith and ambition, its kingdoms locked in endless struggle. Armies clash, religions collide, and empires rise on tides of blood. Into this crucible rides Telamon: soldier, mercenary, outcast. He has lived a hundred lives across centuries, forever condemned to take up arms. Now, drawn into the brutal conflict between Portuguese invaders and Andalusian defenders, he must face both the battlefield before him and the eternal war within himself.
But Telamon is not alone. Across time, through lifetimes, the same figures return: comrades and rivals, lovers and betrayers, all reborn in new forms, bound together by a cycle neither mercy nor death can break. As the armies close on a desperate city, their destinies entwine once more, and Telamon is forced to reckon with the questions that haunt every warrior's soul: Can a man made for battle ever put down his sword? And is there redemption for one who has spilled blood?
With The Arcadian, bestselling author and master of historical fiction Steven Pressfield delivers a sweeping standalone novel that fuses the grit of historical realism with the mysticism of the ancient world. A meditation on fate, justice, and release from violence, The Arcadian is both a war story and a timeless journey of the spirita novel that asks not just how men fight, but why.
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