The Wicked Day

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The Wicked Day

First UK edition
Author	Mary Stewart
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Arthurian Saga
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date	1983
Media type	Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages	350
ISBN	0-340-32237-3
OCLC	36085838
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 21
LC Class	PR6069.T46 W5 1996
Preceded by	The Last Enchantment
Followed by	The Prince and the Pilgrim

The Wicked Day is the fourth novel in Mary Stewart's treatment of Arthurian legend.^[1] It was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1983. It is preceded in the pentalogy by The Last Enchantment (1979), and succeeded by The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995).

Overview[]

The protagonists of the story are Mordred and his father the king, Arthur. Lost as a youth, Mordred is raised by fisherfolk until he is returned to his birth mother Morgause. The novel portrays Mordred as a pawn of fate unlike many tales which paint him as the villain of the Arthurian saga.

The novel covers the time after Merlin's self-imposed exile and stretches to the deaths of Mordred and Arthur.

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