I Am Morgan Le Fay: A Tale from Camelot

by Nancy Springer

Book Overview

Fans who love King Arthur's legend, Camelot, Merlin, and similar tales will love reading about Morgan le Fay. Morgan is a willful, mischievous girl with mismatched eyes of emerald and violet. A girl... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399234519
• ISBN13: 9780399234514
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Philomel Books
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An Amazing Book when I was 13 and an Amazing Book when I am 36!!

Absolutely adore this book! I read it nearly 25yrs ago and reread it as an adult. I had forgotten how well written it is. So very detailed and descriptive. You will be transported to a time of myth and legend full of magic and wonder. The book follows a young Morgan le Fay, the mystical half sister of King Arthur. We meet her as a young girl as she discovers her powers. And, also must face the darkness growing inside her.

Absolutely Breathtaking!

This has to be the best book I have EVER read in my entire life. It not only contains magic, suspense, betrayle, and hatered, but it also containes passion,undieing love,and loss. This story is about a little girl who doesn't really know her destiny, and as she grows up she starts to find it step by step. She finds a magical druid stone one day, and then, before she knows it, starts to start on a never ending adventure- literally. For Morgan le Fay means Morgan the fate, and this fated girl will have to live with the scars of her youth for the rest of her life, and be burdend with the infamous power that brought her those scars. For she is Morgan le Fay...

The Author Speaks

I was raised in a world almost as traditional as that of the legends, 1950s-style, in an old-fashioned Middle American family. A little girl was supposed to look sweet and not talk back, so, like many females before me, I became an expert at hiding my disobedience. As far back as I can remember, I knew that I was sneaky and bad; perhaps I was born to write about the misfit, the outcast, the oddling. I was raised in a world of surface smiles and secret truth. Intensely curious about everything my parents hid from me, I spent my childhood unraveling mysteries -- adult relationships, the Tooth Fairy, rudiments of sex, Santa Claus, neighborhood infidelities, the Easter Bunny. I questioned platitudes, I debunked white lies, I became fascinated with exposing what was hidden, finding out, turning over the stone in search of the grubs underneath. To this day, I go fishing in muddy water. I remain obsessed by the substance beneath the surface. It's no wonder, then, that I chose to write about Mordred and, later, about Morgan le Fay. I had to know: What truth lay beneath the "wicked woman" surface? Fate to the contrary, no one is born evil. Morgan was not born a sorceress any more than Mordred was was born a murderer. How did Morgan of Cornwall become Morgan le Fay? Having been a sneaky, secretly disobedient little girl once, I thought I knew how it might have been for her.

I am Morgan le Fay Book review

I am Morgan le Fay By: Nancy Springer Ms. Olivet Eng. per.2 I am Morgan le Fay is a spellbinding tale of the enchanted place, Avalon, from long ago. It has an incredibly facinating plot, with impecable details. Together these two characteristics create a captivating novel that reaches into the mind of the reader. Nancy Springer's use of imagery brings the reader into the mystical Arthurian world of the sorceress, herself, Morgan le Fay. The castles, forests, events, and never-ending emotions are portrayed so well in the story that the reader can clearly picture them in his/her mind. The author also brings you, the reader, into the mind of the spoiled, stubborn Morgan, as she grows both older and wiser. As you read through the book, you feel everything that Morgan feels, and begin to think the way she does, often forgetting about reality and falling into the words of the novel. As Morgan grows by learning and gaining powers from the milprieve stone, she begins to understand more about herself, and how her past has formed the person she is now. Overall, I felt the novel, I am Morgan le Fay, was a fantastic book filled with dazzling events, people, and places that tease the mind for more reading. I would most definitely recommend this book to readers with creative minds, good imaginations, and those who enjoy fantasy.

Morgan le Fay

I can not believe the wonderful, mistical, enchantment of this book! It's a wonderful story if your looking just to get away; leave your world and enter that of another. Though this book is not for everyone, it is for those who have enough imagination to pull off anything. This book, if taken from the right perspective, can teach very important life lessons. Other than that, it is so wonderful. Enjoy the book.

A powerful retelling of Morgan le Fay's troubled childhood.

Although his many duties as the Duke of Cornwall often kept him away from home, young Morgan loved her father. And when the six-year-old witnessed a man leaving her mother's chamber, a man that looked just like her father but was nothing like him, she knew something was wrong. For her father was dead - killed by the king Uther Pendragon, who then steals Morgan's mother away. Bitter with anger and resentment, the little girl awakens something magical within her - a power that can be used for good or evil. For five years Morgan and her sister Morgause are cared for by their childhood nurse, Ongwynn, and during that time, Morgan's hatred for the king and for her half-brother Arthur steadily grows. When the king dies, Morgan dares to hope that her life will go back to the way it used to be - but instead, she and her sister are forced to flee to Ongwynn's isolated home. There, Morgan's power steadily grows - but so does her hatred. Morgan knows she has a dark fate she is doomed to fulfill - and although she fights it, her struggles are in vain. This was a powerful retelling of a legend, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who fights to control her future, even though she knows deep inside she is doomed to failure.