Lud-In-The-Mist
Lud-In-The-Mist "The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in…
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Lud-In-The-Mist
"The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. a little golden miracle of a book."--Neal GaimanHope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist--a classic fantasy novel--in 1926.
"Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects. 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,