Marion Zimmer Bradley has 31 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 12 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 189 ratings. The most-rated is The Mists of Avalon.
The Mists of Avalon
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A posthumous recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Marion Zimmer Bradley reinvented - and rejuvenated - the King Arthur mythos with her extraordinary Mists of Avalon series. In this epic work, Bradley follows the arc of the timeless tale from the perspective of its previously marginalized female characters: Celtic priestess Morgaine, Gwenhwyfar, and High Priestess Viviane.
©1982 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)1993 Recorded Books
Les Dames du Lac & Les Brumes d'Avalon
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"Jadis on m'a donné les noms les plus divers : ceux de sœur, d'amante, de prêtresse, de mage et de reine." Morgane la Fée, prêtresse d'Avalon. Quand Viviane, prêtresse d'Avalon, arrive accompagnée du grand sage Merlin, Ygerne, femme du duc de Tintagel, ne peut contenir la joie de revoir sa sœur. Mais elle est de courte durée. La Dame du Lac lui annonce sa prochaine grossesse - fruit d'une union avec un autre homme - et le destin de l'enfant qu'elle portera : futur Haut Roi de Grande Bretagne, il unira et protégera les peuples présents sur ses terres ainsi que leurs croyances contre les assauts des envahisseurs. Consciente de ne pouvoir échapper aux forces d'un inéluctable destin, Ygerne se soumet à la volonté de la Déesse... Mais dans un monde où chacun défend son Dieu et où temps anciens et modernes s'affrontent, la paix entre tous ne pourra régner qu'au prix de nombreux sacrifices. La légende du Roi Arthur et des chevaliers de la Table ronde a rarement inspiré un roman d'une telle envergure. Pour la première fois publiée dans son intégralité, l'auteur nous offre ici une nouvelle et fascinante reconstitution de l'un des thèmes romanesques les plus impérissables de toute l'histoire de l'Occident.
©1983 / 1986, 1987 Marion Zimmer Bradley / Les éditions Flammarion pour la traduction française. Traduit de l'américain par Brigitte Chabrol (P)2019 Audible Studios
The Forest House
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She was Eilan, the daughter of a Druidic warleader and gifted with visions. In a land struggling to survive both Roman conquerors and her own people's enemies, surely fate had marked her to become a priestess of the Forest House. But first Eilan had chosen a different, forbidden path - to love Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood among the legions sent to subdue her country. So she must hide a terrible secret when she is anointed as the new High Priestess. With mighty enemies poised to usurp the wealth of magic the Forest House sheltered, Eilan could only trust in the power of the great Goddess to find her destiny amidst the treacherous labyrinth in which fate had placed her.
©1994 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2010 Tantor
Priestess of Avalon
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When a British princess falls in love with a Roman officer destined for imperial greatness, their forbidden desire exacts an unexpected price: banishment from Avalon. Journeying outside the enchanted isle, Helena grows from maiden to mother to wisewoman, experiencing both joy---with the birth of her child---and loss, when politics forces her lover to choose between the Empire and her. Then Helena's son, Constantine, becomes Emperor, and her position as Empress-Mother propels her to prominence at a crucial turning point in Western history. Seeking a way to bridge the pagan world of the Goddess and the new Christian Empire, Helena embarks on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to find the truth that transcends both the old religion and the new.
©2010 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2010 Tantor
Lady of Avalon
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A new age is coming... The King will come...and he will rule forever in Avalon. Through the generations the women of Avalon prepare for the coming of the Defender, the sacred king who will guard the old ways of the Britons and save their land from destruction. On the holy isle of Avalon, hidden in the mists between the world of Faerie and the world of men, they wait. For High Priestess Caillean, facing the Roman foe, salvation comes not through victory, but bitter sacrifice. Two hundred years later, her successor, Dierna, faces a new enemy: the Saxon hordes who assail her people like savages. By the time of Viviane, Britain seems wholly lost. But a Merlin is made amongst the Druids once more, and the day of the Defender, who will come to be known as Arthur, draws close. A spellbinding historical fantasy, Lady of Avalon links the best-selling novels in the Avalon series - The Forests of Avalon and The Mists of Avalon.
©1997 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2010 Tantor
Hawkmistress
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She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. She had the MacAran Gift, the rare Laran that conferred mastery over hawk and horse.
©1982 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2018 Recorded Books
Darkover Landfall
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Darkover, planet of wonder, world of mystery, has been a favorite of science fiction fans for many years. For it is a truly alien sphere - a world of strange intelligences, of brooding skies beneath a ruddy sun, and of powers unknown to Earth. In this novel, Marion Zimmer Bradley tells of the original coming of the Earthmen, of the days when Darkover knew not humanity. This is the full-bodied novel of what happened when a colonial starship crash-landed on that uncharted planet to encounter for the first time in human existence the impact of the Ghost Wind, the psychic currents that were native only to that world, and the price that every Earthling must pay before Darkover could claim him for itself.
©1972 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2017 Recorded Books
The Heritage of Hastur
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Described as "Bradley's best novel" by Locus, The Heritage of Hastur, the longest and most intricate of the Darkover series, is a brilliant epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring of forgotten peoples. This is the novel of the Hastur tradition and of the showdown between those who would bargain away their world for the glories of star-borne science and those who would preserve the special "matrix" power that was at once the prize and the burden of ruddy-sunned Darkover. A note from the author: To the faithful followers of the chronicles of Darkover whose greatest delight seems to be discovering even the most minute inconsistencies from title to title: This audiobook tells a story that a great many of the friends of Darkover have asked me to tell - the story of the early life of Regis Hastur, and of the Sharra rising, and of Lew Alton's first encounter with Marjorie Scott and the man who called himself Kadarin. The faithful followers mentioned above will discover a very few minute inconsistencies between the account herein and the story as Lew Alton told it later. I make no apologies for these. The only explanation I can make is that in the years that elapsed between the events in this audiobook and the later novel dealing with the final destruction of the Sharra matrix, Lew's memories of these events may have altered his perceptions. Or, as I myself believe, the telepaths of the Arilinn Tower may have mercifully blurred his memories, to save his reason.
©1975 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2018 Recorded Books
Le secret d'Avalon
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Bien avant la légende du roi Arthur et Camelot, Avalon était là, majestueuse terre arborant vallées dorées et brumes argentées. Sur cette île, siège de la Déesse Mère, trois prêtresses puissantes façonnent la destinée de l'Angleterre en luttant pour regagner la magie et les traditions d'un monde autrefois moins sombre. Acculées par les envahisseurs, pouvoirs et visions sont leurs seules armes dans ce combat pour la liberté. Et leur unique espoir réside dans leur quête de l'incarnation du Roi Sacré, le vrai Fils de Cent Rois qui, grâce à son épée légendaire Excalibur, affrontera l'ennemi pour le salut de la nation tout entière.
©1997 Marion Zimmer Bradley / Les éditions Flammarion pour la traduction française. Traduit de l'américain par Jean Esch (P)2019 Audible Studios
Stormqueen!
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During the lawless Ages of Chaos, when the ruling families of Darkover ruthlessly inbred their laran-gifted offspring to gain powerful talents, a baby was born to the lord of Aldaran. This child, born on a dark and thunder-filled night, was possessed of a terrifying and uncontrolled talent: Dorilys, heiress to her father's domain, could unwittingly call forth lightning, even while still a fretful child. Fearful for his daughter's life and the safety of his domain, Lord Aldaran sent to a tower for help. But even the powers of a trained monitor and a Hastur lord might not be enough to save this painfully afflicted and deadly young woman.
©1978 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2018 Recorded Books
La colline du dernier adieu
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Bien des siècles avant la naissance du Roi Arthur et la venue des Dames du Lac dans l'Île d'Avalon, au temps de la conquête par Rome des terres voilées de brume de la Grande-Bretagne, vivait une jeune adolescente, Elane, fille d'un druide qui haïssait l'occupant. Aimant d'un amour interdit un jeune Romain qui, grâce à elle, a échappé à la mort, Elane est soudain appelée à succéder à la Haute Prêtresse, gardienne et protectrice des rites et des croyances de son peuple. Prise au piège, obligée de se retirer dans un sanctuaire à la tête d'une communauté de femmes vouées au culte de la Grande Déesse, elle se trouve séparée de l'homme qu'elle aime. Partagée entre ses devoirs sacrés, son désir de conciliation avec les Romains et les aspirations contraires de tribus assoiffées de revanche et de liberté, Elane voit peu à peu sombrer tous ses espoirs de bonheur.
©1994 Marion Zimmer Bradley. Les éditions Flammarion pour la traduction française. Traduit de l'américain par Lise André (P)2019 Audible Studios
The Spell Sword
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Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored...and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew Carr there was an attration he could not evade. Darkover drew him, Darkover haunted him - and when his mapping plane crashed in unknown heights, Darkover prepared to destroy him. Until the planet's magic asserted itself - and his destiny began to unfold along lines predicted only by phantoms and wonder workers of the kind Terran science could never acknowledge.
©1974 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2017 Recorded Books
Thendara House
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Jaelle has been raised in the harsh patriarchal environment of the Dry Towns. Her mother Mellora is a Comyn woman who has been kidnapped in order to breed laran-gifted offspring for her barbarian "husband". But when a desperate, pregnant Mellora dies in childbirth following a daring escape aided by a band of Renunciates, the still young Jaelle is adopted into the Guild, and becomes the Free Amazon Jaelle n'ha Mellora, a woman who has never known kindness from a man.
©1983 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2018 Recorded Books
Signora di Avalon
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Vi sono luoghi dove i due mondi sono vicini tra loro come le pieghe di un drappo. Uno di questi luoghi è quello che gli uomini chiamano Avalon. Qui, nascoste dalle nebbie che separano il regno di Faerie dal mondo degli uomini, tre sacerdotesse dell'Isola Sacra preparano il terreno per l'avvento del difensore, il leggendario Figlio di Cento Re, l'uomo destinato a salvare la Britannia... Per Caillean, che è stata costretta a lasciare la Casa della Foresta portando con sé Gawen, giovane erede di una mitica stirpe reale, la salvezza non giunge attraverso la vittoria sui Romani invasori, ma attraverso il più amaro dei sacrifici. Due secoli dopo Dierna, la nuova Signora di Avalon, è chiamata a fronteggiare un nuovo, crudele nemico venuto dal mare, e per salvare la sua gente dalle incursioni dei Sassoni deve guidare Avalontra i burrascosi flutti della politica con forza, saggezza e amore. Eppure, quando la giovanissima Viviane viene convocata sull'Isola per essere iniziata agli antichi Misteri, la Britannia sembra irrimediabilmente perduta. Poi, però, i Druidi eleggono un nuovo Merlino, e tutto a un tratto il giorno in cui si compirà la profezia e il difensore tornerà per portare la pace in quella terra dilaniata dalle guerre non sembra più così lontano... Ambientato tra il 96 e il 452 d.C., Signora di Avalon, riproposto in versione integrale e nella nuova traduzione di Flavio Santi, ripercorre la storia dell'Isola Sacra, vero cuore della Britannia, a partire dai tragici eventi che concludono La casa della foresta e fino a quelli immediatamente precedenti ai fatti narrati nelle Nebbie di Avalon. E lo fa attraverso la vita di tre delle sue sacerdotesse più potenti: Caillean, Dierna e Viviane, la futura Signora del Lago, custode del santo Graal.
©2020 HarperCollins Italia S.p.A (P)2021 HarperCollins Italia S.p.A
Sharra's Exile
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After the Age of Chaos had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody Sun, even the Sharra had been exiled. But now the Sharra had returned, embodied in the image of a chained woman wreathed in flames, an image that could change the history of Darkover forever. The sequel to Heritage of Hastur, perhaps the single most popular of Bradley's spectacular Darkover novels, Sharra's Exile is the story of Lew Alton's return to Darkover and his battle to destroy the deadly Sharra matrix. Sharra is raised again, and only the revealing of the Hastur Gift in its full measure can control the daemon.
©1981 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2018 Recorded Books
Le nebbie di Avalon. Parte prima
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Potente maga dotata della Vista, Morgaine ha sempre avuto la capacità di scrutare nella mente delle persone e di conoscere i loro pensieri. Ora, in là con gli anni e in pace con il mondo e con se stessa, ha deciso di ripercorrere la propria vita e di narrare l'epica storia dell'ascesa e della caduta di Camelot. E ha scelto di farlo non attraverso le gesta eroiche dei cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda, ma attingendo a ciò che il suo potere le ha permesso di conoscere, per dare finalmente voce alle donne che, insieme a lei, hanno visto il mondo che conoscevano cambiare radicalmente e l'Isola Sacra di Avalon svanire per sempre nelle nebbie. È una storia che inizia quando Morgaine è ancora bambina, con una visione che annuncia a sua madre Igraine l'imminente visita della sorellastra Viviane, la Dama del Lago, e di Taliesin, il Merlino di Britannia, messaggero degli Dei. Sono giunti fino a Tintagel per annunciarle che sarà lei a portare in grembo il Sommo Re, l'uomo destinato a salvare il regno e a garantire la pace e l'unità tra i popoli. Stanca di essere una pedina al servizio di poteri più grandi, Igraine cerca di ribellarsi con tutta se stessa a quella profezia. Ma non si può sfuggire al destino, e ben presto la giovane donna si trova in viaggio verso Londra e verso un futuro che cambierà non solo la sua vita, ma anche quella di sua figlia Morgaine. Il volume contiene la prima parte del primo capitolo del "Ciclo di Avalon", un grande classico del fantasy in nuova edizione con una nuova traduzione.
©2018 HarperCollins Italia S.p.A (P)2020 Audible Studios
The Planet Savers & The Sword of Aldones
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The books that started Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series, this audiobook combines the 1958 novella Planet Savers and the 1962 novella The Sword of Aldones into the only one-volume treatment authorized by the Marion Zimmer Bradley Trust. These two short novels are a welcome addition to any SF fan's library. The Planet Savers, the first Darkover novel, introduces the listener to the now legendary world of Cottman IV.
©1962 Ace Books, Inc.; 1990 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2017 Recorded Books
The World Wreckers
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A classic novel in the best-selling Darkover series. For three quarters of a century, Darkover has resisted the Terran Empire's efforts in colonization and industrialization. But the leader of Planetary Investments Unlimited (known as Worldwreckers, Inc.) has decided to take on this assignment herself...for long ago, she had called Darkover home.
©1971 Marion Zimmer Bradley (P)2017 Recorded Books
The Planet Savers
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Dr. Randall Forth is so desperate to discover a cure for the 48-year-fever, known as Trailmen's fever, he persuades Dr. Jay Allison to undergo hypnosis. Once hypnotized, Jay Allison becomes Jason Allison, his hidden and polar opposite secondary personality. Join Jason Allison as he leads an expedition into the Hellers to collect medical volunteers from among the Trailmen in an effort to develop the serum necessary for treatment and save the planet. Can Jay/Jason maintain his secondary personality long enough to save his people from the 48-year-fever? To complicate things even further, Jason falls in love with Kyla, the trail guide, knowing that once the expedition is over, he will be replaced by Jay, his cold primary personality - and life as he knows it will no longer exist.
Public Domain (P)2016 Daniela Acitelli
La casa della foresta
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Il suo nome è Eilan, figlia di una famiglia druidica e dotata della Vista. Il suo fato, da sempre, è quello di diventare sacerdotessa della Dea, custode della Casa della Foresta e dell'Isola Sacra, il futuro regno di Avalon. Ma Eilan, durante le celebrazioni di Beltane, ha scelto una strada diversa. La strada della ribellione e dell'amore. Si è infatti innamorata di Gaio, un soldato di sangue misto che è arrivato in Britannia con le truppe romane per soggiogare l'antica terra dei Druidi. Ma quando la Somma Sacerdotessa muore, Eilan è designata come sua erede. Dovrà diventare Signora della Casa della Foresta o seguire il suo cuore? Solo il potere della Dea potrà aiutarla a districarsi nel crudele destino che il Fato sembra aver disegnato per lei... Il secondo volume del Ciclo di Avalon, ambientato ai tempi dell'invasione romana in Britannia nel I secolo d.C., narra eventi avvenuti circa quattrocento anni prima rispetto ai fatti di Le nebbie di Avalon. Dopo Le nebbie di Avalon, anche La Casa della Foresta, precedentemente intitolato Le querce di Albion, è ripubblicato per la prima volta in versione integrale nella nuova traduzione di Flavio Santi, che restituisce all'opera il suo splendore originario e conserva il titolo voluto dall'autrice.
©2019 HarperCollins Italia S.p.A. Tradotto da Flavio Santi (P)2020 HarperCollins Italia S.p.A