The Prydain Companion. A Reference Guide to Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles

352 Pages·2010·2.08 MB·English

by  Michael O. Tunnell

THE
PRYDAIN
COMPANION
Lloyd Alexander. Photo by Alexander Limont.
THE
PRYDAIN
COMPANION
A Reference Guide to
Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles
MICHAEL O. TUNNELL
Foreword by
LLOYD ALEXANDER
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY • NEW YORK
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A
CKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author and publisher are grateful to the following for granting use of
their material: Excerpts from Lloyd Alexander’s books, The Book of Three
(1964/1999), The Black Cauldron (1965/1999), Coll and His White Pig
(1965/as part of The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain reissue, 1999),
The Castle of Llyr (1966/1999), Taran Wanderer (1967/1999), The
Truthful Harp (1967/as part of The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
reissue, 1999), The High King (1968/1999), and The Foundling and Other
Tales of Prydain (1973/1999), courtesy of the publisher Henry Holt and
Company, LLC.
Jacket illustrations from The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, Coll
and His White Pig, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The Truthful Harp,
and The High King, and the map of Prydain from The High King, courtesy
of the Estate of Evaline N. Bayard, Arnold A. Bayard, Executor.
The jacket illustration from The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain,
courtesy of Sasha Meret.
The photograph of Lloyd Alexander by Alexander Limont, courtesy of
the photographer.
Excerpts from James S. Jacobs’s 1978 dissertation entitled “Lloyd
Alexander: A Critical Biography,” courtesy of James S. Jacobs.
Excerpts from “Classic Hero in a New Mythology” by Marion Carr. The
Horn Book Magazine, October 1971. Reprinted by permission of The
Horn Book, Inc., Boston, MA.
Excerpts from The White Goddess by Robert Graves, courtesy of Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, LLC, and Carcanet Press Limited, copyright © 1948,
renewed 1975 by Robert Graves.
For Lloyd, Jim, and Glenna
CONTENTS
Foreword by Lloyd Alexander
How to Use the Companion
THE PRYDAIN COMPANION
Appendix: Categories of Entry Headings
References
Lloyd Alexander: A Biographical Sketch