Légende : les différentes éditions

Des copains l'ont achetée et ce sont les derniers ouvrages signés par Gemmel (limité à 1000 exemplaires)


Edit : désolée, il y a avait déjà une note sur ça mais vu qu'on ne peut pas répondre ...

Je ne sais pas s'il en reste encore chez l'éditeur mais j'ai vu que l'on en trouvait quelques fois sur les sites d'annonces du genre Priceminister...
Par contre ça part très vite et les prix sont parfois exorbitant...

Pour les collector, oui on ne peut que les trouver par ce biais maintenant, ils sont tous épuisés, et depuis un bout de temps, auprès de Bragelonne. Je me souviens, j'ai acheté Légende au salon du livre de Paris en 2008 je crois et il faisait parti des derniers.

Exact, j'étais présent à ce salon et j'ai été étonné d'en voir...
On peut dire que tu as eu de la chance d'obtenir le tien !!

Oula oui, tu peux le dire ! J'étais tellement étonnée de le voir que j'ai même demandé à l'un des gars du stand : "C'est bon, on peut vraiment les acheter ?!" :lol!: J'avoue que sur le coup, je n'y croyais pas trop ! Mais bon, y'a pas à dire, Bragelonne c'est au moins faire de belles éditions collector ;)

Imagine le gars t'aurais répondu "Ah non non c'est juste pour décoré " :affraid:
Les livres sont un peu coûteux mais c'est vrai que leurs éditions sont très soignées, j'ai rarement été déçu.

j'ai waylander en edition collector (1979 /2000) je le lache pas a moins de 300 euros si vous etes collectionneur ou que vous connaissez des colectionneurs qui pourrait etre intéréssé faite moi signe !!

et si vous etes pret(e) a laché un légende signé par D gemmell faite moi signe et annoncez votre prix ...

Ouahhhh 300€ c'est la cote actuelle car cela me semble bien chère ??
Sinon j'ai bien Légende en Ed Collector mais pour le moment je ne le vend pas

Je vais peut-être vous casser mais je ne vois pas spécialement l'intérêt d'avoir une édition collector. Certes ça fait plaisir, c'est beau, on en est fier, etc.
Mais je ne pense pas que l'auteur ait mis plus de coeur dedans ^^
Je l'ai croisée à la JE aussi mais j'avais déjà acheté Légende donc je ne l'ai pas prise !
A la rigueur, je préfère emmener mon vieux livre se faire dédicacer (là, ça prend une valeur sentimentale ^^)
Enfin bref, on s'en fiche mais c'est juste le prix qui m'a légèrement étonnée ^^

Zendeno, tu es vraiment prêt à n'importe quel prix pour un Gemmell dédicacé?

Ok, voilà le marché: J'achète le bouquin, je retrouve David Gemmell, je le lui fais signer de force et je te le revends aux alentours de: X 0000000 euros (X au choix entre 1 et 5)

Quoi c'est pas faisable? Oh, zut! A mort les crises cardiaques!

A l'occasion du 25ième anniversaire de la parution de Legend, Orbit propose une réédition du livre, à un prix modique apparemment. Le livre est accompagné d'une préface de Stelle Gemmell.
[url=]http://www.fantasy.fr/articles/view/10921/orbit-fete-les-25-ans-de-legend-de-david-gemmell?reload=true[Lien de l'info][/url]

Et si vous vous sentez calé sur l'univers fantasy/SF/fantastique, vous pouvez toujours essayer de remplir un petit mot-croisé pour gagné l'un des 5 livres mis en jeu (mais je suis certaine qu'ils sont tous déjà gagné ^^)
http://gemmellaward.com/profiles/blogs/win-the-25th-anniversary

Ou vous pouvez juste le faire pour vous amuser ! Ca marche aussi ;)

J'aime bien la couverture mais bon, a part la préface ça n'apporte rien de plus.

Profitant d'un séjour en Angleterre, je me suis procuré la nouvelle version de Légende (que je voulais absolument en VO); celle du 25eme anniversaire ou se trouve la préface de Stella Gemmell.
Avec l'accord de Marie, je l'ai écrite ci-dessous. Elle contient des spoilers du livre et aussi de la trilogie Troie.

""David Gemmell was a child, often lonely, and like many such children he lived in his own head, making up stories for himself based on the ones he read in books. He started writing them down: short action tales, adventures of high romance and poetry. Later on he became a journalist, and perhaps this satisfied his drive for creativity for a while.
When he was twenty-eight, and working on a newspaper in Hastings, he was told he might have cancer. Tests were done, and he had to wait two weeks for the results. Never a patient man, he found that fortnight a very long one. He was at home on sick leave, bored and anxious, and his wife Val suggested he try writing a novel. So he dug out his old manual typewriter and sat down to create, at breakneck speed, a tale called The Siege of Dros Delnoch. It was a story of heroes, in wich the greatest fortress in the world is under attack by the greatest army in the world. As he worked, David decided privately that if he had cancer then the fortress would fall, and if he was in the clear Dros Delnoch would survive.
The Siege of Dros Delnoch was the highest of high fantasy. The hero spoke rather formally, even in the throes of battle or love-making, as if conscious of his status in an epic tale. The heroine was feisty but fragrant. David admitted later that the book wasn't very good, and after he got the all-clear from the hospital, he gave a sigh of relief and put the manuscript away in a drawer for a few years.
When he eventually took it again to reread, he saw it was a heavily drivative mix of stories he had loved a youngster. The Lord of the Rings, the Conan books and the western tales of his favourite author Louis Lamour could all be seen in there. But he also realised it had three going for it. Structurally, it was almost perfect. The battle scenes, though a little stylised, were active and vivid. And the heart of the book, the old warrior Druss, based on his stepfather Bill, was a flesh-and-blood character who leaped off the pages, dragging the rest of the cast with him.
So he set about rewriting the book from scratch, this time putting real people, some of whom he worked with, at the centre of the action. He ditched the high-flown language, the elgant but bloodless swordplay, the declarative statements about love, honour and the meaning of civilisation. You can still see the influences on it, but this time he cherry-picked the best bits. Dros Delnoch recalls a darker Minas Tirith. The desultory conversations of the defending soldiers echo the dry-as-dust humour of Lamour's laconic cowboys and black-clad gunslinger. And the essentiel central of Druss draws on Robert E. Howard's warrior king.
This time around the heroine, Virae, is a stoppy trainee harridan with commitment issues. Rek, the hero, is a cowrd who only goes to Dros Delnoch because he fears losing his love more than he fears losing his life. The minors characters jump off the pages now because David observed his friends and colleagues at work, and translated the dynamics of an average working office into credible day-to-day dramas of ordinary folk in a fortress under siege.
And above them all strode Druss, with his great axe Snaga. Like Conan the Barbarian, Druss was no mere big bruiser, but a strategist and a born commander of men. Druss also shared Conan's wanderlust, and had travelled the Drenai world on a path which took him from battle to battle, and finally led him, as he had always known it would, to meet Death on the wall of Dros Delnoch. By the time he reaches the fortress his legend has travelled ahead of him, and we understand his mythic status because of the other characters' reactions to him.
David was in the grip of obsession. He took the manuscript to the office with him and worked on it throught lunch hours and in downtime. After everyone else had gone home at night he was still at his desk, tapping away. Even onpress days he would only stop typing for long enough to read a galley proof, then turn back to the typewriter to finish a sentence. He took a lot of stick from the other journalists and the printers who recognised the obsession and teased him about it. David just smiled and carried on typing. He knew he was telling a cracking story.
He threw into it everything he knew of life and everything he wanted from it. He wore his heart on his sleeve, careless of what he gave away of his own ambitions, hopes and dreams. A deeply romantic man, he believed in the strength of love, the possibility of redemption, and the power of the Source.
When he finished he had to decide what to call the book. The Siege of Dros Delnoch was too explanatory. He toyed with The Legend of Dros Delnoch and Druss the legend and a dozen other titles. The only thing he was certain about was that it had the word 'Legend' in it. Friends and colleagues offered suggestions, many of them unprintable. It was a surprisingly long time before he realised the only right and proper title.
When it came out in 1984 David eagerly searched Hastings' bookstores looking for a copy, and at lasted found two in a small seatfront shop. He hated the first paperback cover wich, he said, looked like a hamster in armour. Legend was a moderate success, and sales were sufficient for his publishers to ask for more books.
In the following twenty-two years he wrote thirty more books, but Legend was always his favourite, as it is the favourite of a legion of fans. He worked on his craft and his writing skills improved, his characters becoming more complex and more conflicted. He added layers of grey to the black and white clarity of Legend but, as he always said, if you add too much grey all you have is a grey book.
He returned to sieges a number of times, but it was not until he final trilogy that he tackled the greatest siege storyof all, that of Troy. He did not live to finish the final book. Appropriately, for this time, of course, the fortress did fall.""

:)

Mec, tu deboites grave :) Mais grave !

est-ce possible une traduction ?

Je vais essayer d'en faire une dans la semaine, mais je ne garantis rien.

Si quelqu'un sait où je pourrais me procurer cette édition je suis preneur :)

Je ne la trouve pas sur le net même sur des sites tels ebay & co.
Je n'ai jamais rien acheté sur le net d'ailleurs, mais cette édition me donne réellement envie. J'ai l'édition collector de Waylander et sa qualité est merveilleuse, un réel plaisir pour les yeux.

Mais bon si pas, je ferai sans ;)

Bragelonne propose en téléchargement gratuit Légende , mais sur iTunes seulement. De quoi pouvoir découvrir enfin LE livre de Gemmell (s'il y en a encore ici qui ne l'ont pas encore lu)

euh...comment sa en numérique ?
bloc de lecture ?

Ben un fichier ePub, un fichier numérique à lire sur iPad ou une tablette.

ah ok :P
désoler de la question c**** ^^"

comment on peut le telecharger?

comment on peut le telecharger?

Il faut aller sur iTunes mais l'offre a du expirer.

Puis double post en 3 minutes d'untervalles....