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The Hound of Ulster (Red Fox Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher: Red Fox
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1294416
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0099438593
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780099438595
ASIN: 0099438593
Publication Date: November 1, 2002
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Product Description
This saga of the Irish Celts is re-told by Rosemary Sutcliff with a magical weaving together of passion and poetry. The boy who takes up the spear and shield of Manhood on this day will become the most renowned of all the warriors of Ireland, men will follow at his call to the world's end, and his enemies will shudder at the thunder of his chariot wheels. So the prophecy went, and as the boy Cuchulain heard it, he went forward to claim the weapons of his manhood. This is the story of how he became the greatest of heroes—the Hound of Ulster.
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| Customer Reviews:
Should be back in print May 4, 2000
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
The Hound of Ulster is a gripping retelling of the Ulster Cycle - the Irish myths about the semi-divine warrior hero Cuchulain and the Cattle Raid of Cooley. The stories apparently date from the bronze age oral tradition, but were finally written down in the 8th century. Sutcliff writes well and vividly. The stories are a mixture of savagery and lyricism, wild fantasy and psychological realism. Cuchulain in his battle frenzy literally metamorphoses into a monster, yet when he mourns the dead he is completely human. The original Ulster Cycle, also known as The Tain, is available in an English translation by Thomas Kinsella, with stunning illustrations by Louis Le Brocquy, from Oxford University Press. But the text is extremely hard to follow: the Hound of Ulster is much more readable for newcomers to the story. And anyone who likes this novel should read the haunting WB Yeats poem, Cuchulain Comforted, about the hero's death. It's full of ambivalence about heroes and men of violence: how do we admire their courage while deploring their deeds?
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