Lud-In-The-Mist
by:
Hope Mirrlees (author)
Between the mountains and the sea, between the sea and Fairyland, lay the Free State of Dorimare and its picturesque capital, Lud-in-the-Mist. No Luddite ever had any truck with fairies or Fairyland. Bad business, those fairies. The people of Dorimare had run them out generations ago—and the Duke...
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Between the mountains and the sea, between the sea and Fairyland, lay the Free State of Dorimare and its picturesque capital, Lud-in-the-Mist. No Luddite ever had any truck with fairies or Fairyland. Bad business, those fairies. The people of Dorimare had run them out generations ago—and the Duke of Dorimare along with them.Until the spring of his fiftieth year Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist and High Seneschal of Dorimare, had lived a sleepy life with his only son, Ranulph. But as he grew, Ranulph was more and more fond of talking nonsense about golden cups, and snow-white ladies milking azure cows, and the sound of tinkling bridles at midnight. And when Ranulph was twelve, he got caught up with the fairies, and Nathaniel’s life would never be the same.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781440543371 (1440543372)
Publish date: May 1st 2012
Publisher: Prologue Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Paranormal,
Novels,
High Fantasy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Fairies,
Mystery
Series: Fantasy Masterworks (#11)
Lud-in-the-Mist is a recently "rediscovered" work of fantasy first published in 1926. The titular town, Lud-in-the-Mist, is a stolid, Shire-like merchant town at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dawl flows down to the sea, and is the source of much of the town's wealth thro...
An obscure fantasy classic, if that isn’t too much of an oxymoron. This little gem was first published in 1926, then re-released in 2005 with a beautiful cover (and too many typos – I have no patience for publishers milking a dead author’s work without bothering to copyedit, even if they do have gre...
With Lud-in-the-Mist, I come to the end of reading a short list of classics that came recommended to me through Neil Gaiman. I mean, he didn't recommend them personally; I put this list together based on some blog posts and author's notes and forewords from other Gaiman works. This is also the thi...
Want to read: more pre-Tolkein fantasy. It seems so interesting.
To find. Thanks Wanda for the recommendation
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