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The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric Rucker
Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted
war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords
of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and
partly reminiscent of Norse sagas. This is the book that shaped the
landscape of contemporary science fiction. J. R. R. Tolkien
acclaimed its author as ""the greatest and most convincing writer
of 'invented worlds' that I have read."" Written in the best
traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and Arthurian myths, it
recounts compelling tales of warriors and witches. The Worm
Ourorobos is second only to the Lord of the Rings in the pantheon
of 20th century English fantasy. You have never read anything like
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This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science
fiction. J. R. R. Tolkien acclaimed its author as "the greatest and
most convincing writer of 'invented worlds' that I have read."
Written in the best traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and
Arthurian myths, it recounts compelling tales of warriors and
witches.
Egil's Saga is the 10th-century Nordic equivalent of The Iliad and
The Odyssey. Translated from the Icelandic with an introduction,
notes and an essay, this is the first time Eddison's version of
this epic heroic saga has been published in paperback. The saga of
Egil, son of Grim the Bald, tells the exciting tale of a medieval
warrior-poet and his many Viking adventures. Challenged by his ugly
appearance and haunted by rumours that his grandfather was a
werewolf, Egil devotes himself to Odin, god of kings, warriors and
poets, and determines to avenge his father's exile from Norway.
With action ranging across Iceland and Scandinavia down to Scotland
and England, Egil's thrilling encounters include kings, sorcerers,
berserkers and outlaws, as the story follows his transformation
from youthful savagery to mature wisdom. Sometimes considered the
greatest of the Icelandic sagas, Egil's Saga is the 10th-century
Nordic equivalent of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Eddison's acclaimed
translation, published in 1930, has been long unavailable, and
demonstrates the author's amazing capacity for evocative and
erudite language. It reflects the swift dramatic terseness and
vivid character-drawing which made the saga style in prose
narrative such an enduring model for modern historical and fantasy
literature, and his meticulous translation includes elaborate notes
and annotations.
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The Worm Ouroboros (Hardcover)
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The Worm Ouroboros (1922) is a high fantasy novel by E. R. Eddison.
Inspired by the Norse sagas and medieval history, Eddison crafted
an epic story of magic, adventure, romance, and war. Praised by New
York Times critic Edwin Clark as a novel that "transcends all
ordinary life," The Worm Ouroboros is frequently named among the
greatest works of fantasy fiction ever produced. At their palace in
Demonland, Lord Juss, his brothers Goldry and Spitfire, and their
cousin Brandoch Daha receive an ambassador from Witchland. After a
brief introduction, the visiting dwarf reveals his business-King
Gorice XI demands their absolute fealty. Rather than submit,
however, Lord Juss challenges Gorice to a wrestling match with
Goldry, to be held on the neutral Foliot Isles. Knowing the fate of
Mercury hangs in the balance, Goldry fights bravely and defeats the
wicked King. Through black magic, however, an evil sorcerer
condemns Gordry to imprisonment on a mystical mountain peak.
Distraught, Juss, Spitfire, and Brandoch return to Demonland to
mount an army in order to march on the capital of the Witches, who
have joined forces with Lord Gro of Goblinland. The Lords of
Demonland break through enemy lines, making their way to the
citadel of Carce, where they mistakenly believe Goldry has been
taken. The Worm Ouroboros is a story of bravery and betrayal by a
master of high fantasy whose imaginative gifts have influenced
generations of devoted readers. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of E. R.
Eddison The Worm Ouroboros is a classic of British literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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The Worm Ouroboros (Paperback)
E. R Eddison; Contributions by Mint Editions
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The Worm Ouroboros (1922) is a high fantasy novel by E. R. Eddison.
Inspired by the Norse sagas and medieval history, Eddison crafted
an epic story of magic, adventure, romance, and war. Praised by New
York Times critic Edwin Clark as a novel that "transcends all
ordinary life," The Worm Ouroboros is frequently named among the
greatest works of fantasy fiction ever produced. At their palace in
Demonland, Lord Juss, his brothers Goldry and Spitfire, and their
cousin Brandoch Daha receive an ambassador from Witchland. After a
brief introduction, the visiting dwarf reveals his business-King
Gorice XI demands their absolute fealty. Rather than submit,
however, Lord Juss challenges Gorice to a wrestling match with
Goldry, to be held on the neutral Foliot Isles. Knowing the fate of
Mercury hangs in the balance, Goldry fights bravely and defeats the
wicked King. Through black magic, however, an evil sorcerer
condemns Gordry to imprisonment on a mystical mountain peak.
Distraught, Juss, Spitfire, and Brandoch return to Demonland to
mount an army in order to march on the capital of the Witches, who
have joined forces with Lord Gro of Goblinland. The Lords of
Demonland break through enemy lines, making their way to the
citadel of Carce, where they mistakenly believe Goldry has been
taken. The Worm Ouroboros is a story of bravery and betrayal by a
master of high fantasy whose imaginative gifts have influenced
generations of devoted readers. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of E. R.
Eddison The Worm Ouroboros is a classic of British literature
reimagined for modern readers.
A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairn by the
author who went on to create The Worm Ouroboros and the
groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy. Eric Rucker Eddison's
first book, originally published privately in hardback during the
First World War, is a poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford
poet Philip Sidney Fletcher Nairn, whose work was so inspired by
his Scottish ancestry, life in the Lake District, and his
subsequent travels across Asia. This first official paperback
edition includes a poignant and evocative biography, a dozen
photographs, and more than 50 of Nairn's poems, and marks the
centenary of his untimely death in Kuala Lumpur in May 1914, aged
just 30 years old.
The second volume in the classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds,
admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the
Rings and modern fantasy fiction. A lady strays from a garden path
and enters a different realm. A king wages dynastic war for control
of three kingdoms. As villains plot to take control of an alternate
world inhabited by the souls of the dead, a mysterious, magical
woman seeks her destiny, igniting a splendid pageantry of battles
and quests, poisonous love and triumphant passion, doomed loyalties
and unsurpassed courage. And while Edward Lessingham engages in an
earthly romance in twentieth-century England, seduction in
Zimiamvia takes place over the most lavish of banquets...
The first volume in the classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds,
admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the
Rings and modern fantasy fiction. According to legend, the Gates of
Zimiamvia lead to a land 'that no mortal foot may tread, but that
souls of the dead that were great upon earth do inhabit.' Here they
forever live, love, do battle, and even die again. Edward
Lessingham - artist, poet, king of men and lover of women - is
dead. But from Aphrodite herself, the Mistress of Mistresses, he
has earned the promise to live again with the gods in Zimiamvia in
return for her own perilous future favours. This sequel to The Worm
Ouroboros recounts the story of Lessingham's first day in this
strange Valhalla, where a lifetime is a day and where - among
enemies, enchantments, guile and triumph - his destiny can be
rewritten.
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The Mezentian Gate (Paperback)
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The third volume in the classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds,
admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the
Rings and modern fantasy fiction. E. R. Eddison was the author of
three of the most remarkable fantasies in the English language: The
Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses and A Fish Dinner in
Memison. Linked together as separate parts of one vast romantic
epic, fans who clamoured for more were finally rewarded 13 years
after Eddison's death with the publication of the uncompleted
fourth novel, written during the dark years of the Second World
War. This new edition of The Mezentian Gate includes additional
narrative fragments of the story missing from the original 1958
edition. Together with an illuminating introduction by Eddison
scholar Paul Edmund Thomas, this volume returns Edward Lessingham
to the extravagant realm of Zimiamvia and concludes one of the most
extraordinary and influential fantasy series ever written.
THE WORM OUROBOROS, no worm, but the Serpent itself, is a wonderful
book. As a story or as prose it is wonderful, and, there being a
cause for every effect, the reason for writing it should be as
marvelous again. Shelley had to write the Prometheus Unbound, he
was under compulsion; for a superhuman energy had come upon him,
and he was forced to create a matter that would permit him to
imagine, and think, and speak like a god. It was so with Blake, who
willed to appear as a man but existed like a mountain; and, at
their best, the work of these poets is inhuman and sacred. It does
not greatly matter that they had or had not a message. It does not
matter at all that either can be charged with nonsense or that both
have been called madmen -- the same charge might be laid against a
volcano or a thunderbolt -- or this book. It does not matter that
they could transcend human endurance, and could move tranquilly in
realms where lightning is the norm of speed. The work of such poets
is sacred because it outpaces man, and, in a realm of their own,
wins even above Shakespeare.
The lost classic masterpiece of magical realms, admired by Tolkien
and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern
fantasy fiction. On the far side of darkness lies a world where two
mighty forces are making ready for a war of kingdom against
kingdom, warrior against witch, and honour against treachery. It is
a world that beckons Edward Lessingham and is totally at odds with
his Edwardian background. Torn by greater passions than mere
mortals can know, the adventure-loving lords of Demonland are
pitted against the cruel enchantments of the witch-king Gorice XII.
As swords cross with clash of steel, they begin their odyssey in
glory and terror. E.R. Eddison's masterpiece stands as one of the
great prototypes of modern fantasy fiction. The intricately woven
themes of high adventure, sorcery and the conflict between good and
evil transport the reader to epic worlds beyond imagination.
The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric Rucker
Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted
war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords
of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and
partly reminiscent of Norse sagas. The work is slightly related to
Eddison's later Zimiamvian Trilogy, and collectively they are
sometimes referred to as the Zimiamvian series. Eric Rucker Eddison
(24 November 1882 - 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant
and author, writing under the name "E.R. Eddison." Eddison is best
known for the early romance The Worm Ouroboros (1922) and for three
volumes set in the imaginary world Zimiamvia, known as the
Zimiamvian Trilogy: Mistress of Mistresses (1935), A Fish Dinner in
Memison (1941), and The Mezentian Gate (1958).
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
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may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
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THE WORM OUROBOROS, no worm, but the Serpent itself, is a wonderful
book. As a story or as prose it is wonderful, and, there being a
cause for every effect, the reason for writing it should be as
marvelous again. Shelley had to write the Prometheus Unbound, he
was under compulsion; for a superhuman energy had come upon him,
and he was forced to create a matter that would permit him to
imagine, and think, and speak like a god. It was so with Blake, who
willed to appear as a man but existed like a mountain; and, at
their best, the work of these poets is inhuman and sacred. It does
not greatly matter that they had or had not a message. It does not
matter at all that either can be charged with nonsense or that both
have been called madmen -- the same charge might be laid against a
volcano or a thunderbolt -- or this book. It does not matter that
they could transcend human endurance, and could move tranquilly in
realms where lightning is the norm of speed. The work of such poets
is sacred because it outpaces man, and, in a realm of their own,
wins even above Shakespeare.
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