The Three Palladins

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The Three Palladins

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Harold Lamb
Illustrator	Cathy Hill
Cover artist	Cathy Hill
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy novel
Publisher	Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
Publication date	1977
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	244 pp
OCLC	4158927

The Three Palladins is a novel of historical fiction by Harold Lamb. It was first published in book form in 1977 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,350 copies. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Adventure in 1923. The Three Palladins was later reprinted in the 2010 omnibus volume Swords From The East.

Plot

The novel is an adventure story about the rise of the young Genghis Khan and the fabled kingdom of Prester John. The hero of The Three Palladins is a young Chinese prince, Mingan.

Influence

Robert E. Howard read The Three Palladins on its magazine publication. Howard later quoted from the book in his 1923 amateur magazine, The Golden Caliph. The scene in Howard's Conan story The Scarlet Citadel where Conan lifts a villain and hurls him to his death off a high building, is similar to a scene in The Three Palladins.

References

• The Three Palladins title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 324.
• Clute, John; John Grant (1997). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 557. ISBN 0-88184-708-9.

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