Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
A true classic - and the 'single most beautiful...and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century' Neil Gaiman
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 *
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 *
Helen Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British author of novels and poems, whose three novels are Lud-in-the-Mist, Madeleine, and Counterplot, and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems. She was one of the Bloomsbury Group and counted among her good friends T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats and Virginia Woolf.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781473225565 |
| ISBN 10 | 1473225566 |
| Title | Lud-In-The-Mist |
| Author | Hope Mirrlees |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2018-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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