Camber of Culdi

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Author(s):

Katherine Kurtz

First Pub:

1976

Genre(s):

Fantasy

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Subject(s):

Deryni (Fictitious characters) - Fiction
Fantasy fiction
Gwynedd (Imaginery place) - Fiction
science fiction

Chapters:

See 22

Prologue - Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever. -Isaiah 30:8

I - In the multitude of people is the king's honour; but in the want of the people is the destruction of the prince. -Proverbs 14:28

II - He shall go to the generation of his fathers... -Psalms 49:19

III - Then give place to the physician, for the Lord path created him: let him not go from thee, for thou past need of him. -Ecclesiasticus 38:12

IV - Hear counsel and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. -Proverbs 19:20

V - Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month... -Jeremiah 36:22

VI - O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain, that I might weep day and night for the slain... -Jeremiah 9:1

VII - The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration. -Ecclesiasticus 38:3

VIII - Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? -Proverbs 27:4

IX When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. -Proverbs 26:25

X - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. -Proverbs 20:1

XI - The just shall be in everlasting remembrance. -Psalms 112:6

XII - For or wise counsel thou shalt make thy war. -Proverbs 24:6

XIII - For your hands are defiled with blood. -Isaiah 59:3

XIV - Blessed shall they be that shall be in those days,/He bringeth back His anointed. -Psalms of Solomon 18:6

XV - I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage. -Jeremiah 12:7

XVI - There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother; yet is there no end to all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches. -Ecclesiastes 4:8

XVII - But he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. -Leviticus 21:14

XVIII - The Lord said to my lord, "You are my son. This day I have begotten you!" -Psalms 2:7.

XIX - And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them. -Leviticus 24:12

XX - Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us. -Genesis 23:6

XXI - For out of prison he comes to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becomes poor. -Ecclesiastes 4:14

Internal ID:

2412

Series:

<- High Deryni - Saint Camber ->

Deryni*

#4 of 16

Deryni*

An encompasing series of several trilogies about the Deryni by Katherine Kurtz.

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1) Deryni Rising
2) Deryni Checkmate
3) High Deryni
4) Camber of Culdi
5) Saint Camber
6) Camber the Heretic
7) The Bishop's Heir
8) The King's Justice
9) The Quest for Saint Camber
10) The Harrowing of Gwynedd
11) King Javan's Year
12) The Bastard Prince
13) King Kelson's Bride
14) In the King's Service
15) Childe Morgan
16) The King's Deryni

Legends of Camber of Culdi

#1 of 3

Legends of Camber of Culdi

A series within the Deryni world written by Katherine Kurtz. Also called "Legends of Saint Camber".

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1) Camber of Culdi
2) Saint Camber
3) Camber the Heretic

Copyright:

Dedication:

For
Frederick Harry Kurtz
and for
The good folk of the
Society for Creative Anachronism,
without whom this book would have
been finished far sooner,
but far less well.
Author doth not live by typewriter alone!

First Sentence:

Saint Camber.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Let it be done according to thy will...

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Added: 06-Aug-2019

Last Updated: 16-Nov-2023

Publications

01-Feb-1991

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Feb-1991

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$4.95

Pages*:

298

Catalog ID:

34767

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

33359

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-34767-6

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-34767-1

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Bob Porter - Map
Darrell K Sweet - Cover Artist

Deryni
Kingmaker

Camber was the greatest of the Deryni - that race of men who were gifted with arcane mental powers that set them above normal humans. In later legends, he was to become a figure of mystery, known as both the patron saint of dark magic and the defender of humanity. But now he sought only retirement on his family estates.

But it was not to be.

The kingdom of Gwynedd groaned under the tyranny of Imre and his sister and mistress, Ariella. Normal humans were savagely persecuted by the king, whose Deryni ancestors had seized the throne from the rightful human Haldane line. Camber could not even save his own son from the murderous treachery of Imre.

Then Camber learned that Cinhil Haldane, a descendant of the previous Kings, still lived, and he realized that the only hope for the kingdom lay in overthrowing Imre and setting Cinhil on the throne.

Grimly Camber set out to locate Cinhil and spirit him away from the only life he ever knew to lead him into a struggle that seemed doomed from the start.

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Notes and Comments:

First Edition: July 1976
Twenty-first Printing: February 1991
Canada: $4.95

Includes:
Index I: Index of Characters
Index II: Index of Place Names
Index III: Partial Lineage of the Haldane Kings
Index IV: The Festillic Kings of Gwynedd and Their Descendants
Index V: Partial Lineage of the MacRories

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Author(s)

Katherine Kurtz
Birth: 18 Oct 1944 Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Notes:

From About the Author in Bishop's Heir:

Katherine Kurtz was awarded a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Miami and attended medical school for a year before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it. She earned an M.A. in medieval English history from UCLA while writing her first two novels, and worked as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy for the next ten years. She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, an avid horsewoman, and an avowed cat person. She has a husband who wears kilts, a ten-year-old son named Cameron, a vintage Bentley motorcar once owned by HRH the Duke of Kent, and hopes soon to live in a castle in Ireland. Besides the Deryni Trilogy, the Camber Trilogy, and several short stories set in the Deryni universe, she has recently published a World War II thriller, Lammas Night, dealing with magic worked to keep Hitler from invading England in the summer of 1940. She is currently at work on the second and third books of the Histories of King Kelson, with at least two more trilogies planned.

Awards

1977

Britsh Fantasy Society

August Derleth Award

Nominee

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