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 Thendara House
References
- First publication:
- Daw in 1983
- Reference edition (in this Web site)
- Daw Books, ISBN 0-88677-240-0
- Foreign editions:
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- in french:
"La maison des amazones" (the house of the amazons) published by Pocket in
1993
- in german:
"Gildenhaus Thendara" (Guild house Thendara) published by Moewig bei Ullstein in
1994
- in italian:
"I regni di Darkover" (Darkover's Kingdoms) published by TEA2 in
1990
- in portuguese:
"A Casa de Thendara" published by Editora Imago (Brazil) in
1990
- in spanish:
"La casa de Thendara" published by Ediciones B in
1991
Situation
This novel is the tenth in the Darkover
time. It is the fifteenth in the publication time.
Reading guide
- Darkover history period:
- Against the Terrans-The first Age (Recontact)
- What to read before and after:
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This novel is the second in a three novels story. The first novel is The Shattered Chain and the third novel is City of Sorcery. Characters of The Forbidden Tower make short but really
important intervention in Thendara House, therefore I strongly
recommand to read it (and its first part, The Spell
Sword) before.
- Notes:
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I don't think this novel is really interesting, but it gives important
information about really important characters introduced in The Shattered Chain and in The Spell Sword. Therefore...
"Official" presentation (from Daw Books)
To Thendara House came the Terran Madga in exchange for the Free Amazon
Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran
enclave.
The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian,
combined with the human problems of the two who had switched allegiances,
brings into focus all the deepest questions of love and marriage, of male and
female, and of justice and injustice.
Marion Zimmer Bradley, talented author of The mists of
Avalon, spent many years resolving the theme of this book - and
Thendara House is a novel of future speculation which has
become a classic masterwork on the role of women on any world, past, present
and future.
More about the novel
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