The Knight of the Swords [Dramatized Adaptation] cover art

The Knight of the Swords [Dramatized Adaptation]

Corum, Book 1

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.
Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Knight of the Swords [Dramatized Adaptation]

By: Michael Moorcock
Narrated by: full cast, Nanette Savard, Chris Genebach, Tracy Olivera, Nick DePinto, Evan Casey, Todd Scofield, Scott McCormick, Andy Clemence, Thomas Keegan, Ken Jackson, Bob Payne
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

The ancient races, the Vadhagh and the Nhadragh, are dying. By creating Mankind, the universe has condemned Earth to a pestilence of destruction and fear.

Prince Corum is the last remaining Vadhagh. He sets out on a crusade of vengeance against the forces that slaughtered his family and his race, to challenge the unjust power of the puppet masters of Man: the Lords of Chaos. Along the way he will barter with his soul for the limbs of gods to repair his mutilated body and will encounter a member of the very race who caused the mutilation, the irresistible Rhalina....

Performed by Nanette Savard, Chris Genebach, Tracy Olivera, Nick DePinto, Evan Casey, Todd Scofield, Scott McCormick, Andy Clemence, Thomas Keegan, Ken Jackson, Bob Payne, Eva Wilhelm, Matthew Keenan, Richard Rohan, Patrick Bussink, Terence Aselford.

©1971 Michael and Linda Moorcock (P)2016 Graphic Audio, LLC Epic Fantasy

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Elric of Melniboné cover art
Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian cover art
Swords and Deviltry cover art
The Dying Earth cover art
Marius' Mules I: The Invasion of Gaul cover art
The Colour of Magic cover art
Trollslayer cover art
The Children of Hurin cover art
First and Only cover art
Homeland cover art
The Silmarillion cover art
Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries cover art
Chelmsford 123 - The Revival cover art
The Rats in the Walls (Dramatized) cover art
The Fall of Númenor cover art
Space Team: The Collected Adventures, Volume 1 cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Thoroughly enjoyed this read/listen. The story itself unfolds at a pretty quick pace and gets into the action before you know it. Nanette did a fantastic job as the main narrator, while I also enjoyed Chris Genebach as Corum. As someone who has recently started reading Elric of Melniboné stories, I felt like this was a great contrast to Elric's character.

Much like Elric, Corum is the last of his race, blessed with powers from gods old and new. But unlike Elric, Corum laments the death of his race, who were goodly, learned folk. If you like the idea of a bit more of a sympathetic protagonist in the Moorcock-verse, I recommend checking this out!

A good starting place for the Moorcock Multiverse

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The narrator is the distractingly "posh". Really annoying. She chews up the pronunciation of some words so much, that you are left baffled as to how anybody could create a spoken word so far removed from its spelling.

It's like someone doing an act... badly. It sounds like the detestably fat-tongued Toyah Wilcox putting on a very bad "upper-crust" voice.

Great story. Horrible narration.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Excellent acting throughout. The only thing that puzzled me was the narrator's pronunciation of 'dais'. I even considered that it was a ridiculously advanced AI program. Queen of the Swords ⚔️ now. Blessed be. So mote it be

Fantastic rendition of a fantastic book. I last read it 36 years ago and this version didn't disappoint.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Takes a bit of getting used to, and excellent when you do. Anyone familiar with the tales of the Eternal Champion will recognise Corum, his refined esthetic and doom laden journey.

Excellent story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It was a Interesting plot with very good character design, with a variety of scope and range of emotions that were not forced.

Imaginative story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
If you can stomach the posh narrator Corum’s ‘Oirish’ accent, the sudden dark turn the story takes not far into the narrative and a graphic torture scene that he endures near to the start of the story, and don’t mind a rather spontaneous love story, then you will absolutely enjoy this story of Prince Corum and his multiversal adventures to avenge his people and protect his great love from the trickery of chaos gods and barbarian hordes.

Highly enjoyable once I got more and more into Corum’s journey and very well voice acted with a high quality production value to it. Much better than I expected and will definitely get the next title in the series, of which to my surprise are about 5/6 in total!

Intriguing and brilliantly acted

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved it now to the next book in the series. A great fantasy to enjoy.

Riveting.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Did not anticipate Corum having a very ripe Oirish accent - unfortunately so angular that it never settles into the mix. Otherwise, great story and well dramatised

Great story and well dramatised

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
read all of Moorcocks works when I was much much younger... so very nice to now hear them 🙂😊🙂

fabulous 👍

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Terrible voice acting. They all sound like they have entered a "Worst Dick van Dyke Competition".

Terrible voice acting.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews