The King of the Swords (The Book of Corum) [Import] [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Grafton; New Ed edition (March 30, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0586207163
• ISBN-13: 978-0586207161
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The battle between Law & Chaos continues, March 2, 2002

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Michael Dea (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Of The Swords (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the conclusion of Moorcock's Sword's Trilogy,although the Chronicles of Corum are continued in a further three novels, starting with 'The Bull and the Spear'.
After vanquishing two of the sword-rulers, in this book Prince Corum moves on to the most powerful; the King of Swords. He is accompanied again by the eternal companion of champions Jhary-a-conel. Corum also receives the help of other heroes, which readers of Moorcock's other Eternal Champions series will recognize.
This book brings the trilogy to a satisfying conclusion, but again the pacing is so fast that it has the effect of making the struggle against Chaos seem to easy for Corum, as he seems to get out of jams as fast as he gets in them, usually with supernatural help.

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 30, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Of The Swords (Mass Market Paperback)

Another important installment of the Eternal Champion series, and the third book in the first Corum trilogy.

Corum Jhaelen Irsei, ever resourceful, has taken out the Queen of the Swords, and now has to face the most powerful of this suit, the King.

He is most definitely not without help and resources, as here, he joins to become the ultra-hero Three-Who-Are-One, with both Elric and Erekose.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elric I love, but Corum is better..., September 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: King Of The Swords (Mass Market Paperback)

I picked up this book at a book sale because it was by Michael Moorcock, writer of the Elric 'saga'. I read it and found myself completely entwined in this other similar yet totally different series about Law vs. Chaos. The ending made me laugh, the characters were as beautiful as anything in all of Elric, and one of the parts relates (perfectly) to part in another Elric book... Sailor on the Seas of Fate, I think. Beautiful. I love it all...