Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... a little golden miracle of a book.--Neal Gaiman

Hope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist--a classic fantasy novel--in 1926. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects.

Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887. Mirrlees was a close friend of such literary lights as Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Katharine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats. Under her own name, she published three novels: Madeleine -- One of Life's Jansenists (1921); The Counterplot (1924); and her 1926 classic fantasy Lud-in-the-Mist, which has acknowledged inspiration to the likes of Neil Gaiman, Mary Gentle, Elizabeth Hand, Johanna Russ, and Tim Powers.--SF Site

Hope Mirrlees' writing, usually underrated, moves between gently crazy humour, poetic snatches, real menace, and real poignancy.--The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

(Helen) Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet, and novelist who lived from 1887 until 1978. She is best known for the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist, published in 1926, and the modernist poem Paris: A Poem, which critic Julia Briggs dubbed modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of tremendous fire, intensity, scale, and ambition. Mirrlees' 600-line modernist poem was the subject of extensive research by researcher Julia Briggs, and is thought to have influenced the work of her friend, T. S. Eliot.

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ISBN 13	9781434442185
ISBN 10	1434442187
Title	Lud-In-The-Mist
Author	Hope Mirrlees
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wildside Press
Year published	2013-08-07
Number of pages	232
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