![]() Reviewers tend to regard it as appropriate for a slightly older readership than its predecessors. Issues of loss, estrangement, and loyalty are more complicated, pulling main characters in conflicting directions. Its themes are more complex than in the first two Marcus books. ![]() At the same time it is the fourth of eight books sometimes called the Eagle of the Ninth series (1954 to 1997). Lantern Bearers is the third of four books sometimes catalogued as the Marcus series (1954 to 1963), inaugurated by The Eagle of the Ninth. Sutcliff won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. ![]() ![]() Set in Roman Britain during the 5th century, it is the story of a British Roman's life after the final withdrawal of Roman troops (around 410). The Lantern Bearers is a historical novel for children by Rosemary Sutcliff, first published by Oxford in 1959 with illustrations by Charles Keeping. ![]()
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