Lud-In-The-Mist - Couverture souple

Mirrlees, Hope

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857987675 ISBN 13 : 9781857987676

Editeur : Gollancz, 2008

Synopsis

The town of Lud is a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to Lud, which had long rejected such fanciful nonsense as fairies, elves and the like. Then a perfect plague of faerie influences hits the town, penetrating even to Miss Primrose Crabapple's Establishment for Young Ladies, and it becomes apparent to even the stuffiest burgher that Steps Would Have To Be Taken. Fortunately for everyone, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud, is a man with his head firmly in the clouds ...

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

The single most beautiful and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century (Neil Gaiman)

A Shakespearian tragi-comedy, a murder mystery and a multi-faceted allegory all in one; and a damn good story, too (Mary Gentle)

What we have here is that rarest of creatures, the fantasy novel of ideas (Michael Swanwick)

[involves] fundamental questions of how a society and its members understand their own history, and how they make sense of the conflicts embedded in social class and political power (Mary Beard TLS)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) is the third novel by Hope. It continues the author's exploration of the themes of Life and Art, by a method already described in the preface of her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists (1919): "to turn from time to time upon the action the fantastic limelight of eternity, with a sudden effect of unreality and the hint of a world within a world".

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Gollancz
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1857987675
• ISBN 13: 9781857987676
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272