Blood And Gold & Vampire Armand by Anne Rice (Paperback, 2002)
2x Second hand paperback novel, sold as in photos.
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Blood & Gold
In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present.
The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a “dark god” by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead – “destroy them and you destroy all vampires.” He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for...
We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo – a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life.
Worlds within worlds unfold – historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar – as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.
The Vampire Armand
This angel-faced killer was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century.
Here his victims await either death or immortality. But once there his own existence comes into question when he must chose between salvation and his immortal soul...
2x Second hand paperback novel, sold as in photos.
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Blood & Gold
In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present.
The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a “dark god” by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead – “destroy them and you destroy all vampires.” He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for...
We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo – a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life.
Worlds within worlds unfold – historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar – as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.
The Vampire Armand
This angel-faced killer was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century.
Here his victims await either death or immortality. But once there his own existence comes into question when he must chose between salvation and his immortal soul...
2x Second hand paperback novel, sold as in photos.
Synopsis
About this title
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Blood & Gold
In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present.
The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a “dark god” by Druids in the forests of Gaul; how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead – “destroy them and you destroy all vampires.” He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for...
We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo – a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life.
Worlds within worlds unfold – historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar – as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire: the magician Marius.
The Vampire Armand
This angel-faced killer was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century.
Here his victims await either death or immortality. But once there his own existence comes into question when he must chose between salvation and his immortal soul...
