The King of Elfland's Daughter: A Novel - Brossura

Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

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ISBN 10: 034543191X ISBN 13: 9780345431912

Casa editrice: Del Rey, 1999

Riassunto

Long out of print, the story of a young prince, who ventures into a mysterious forest in search of the land of Faerie, and of a princess bride, is one of the landmarks of modern fantasy fiction. Reprint.

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“No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm.”—H.P. Lovecraft

“We find that he has but tranfigured with beauty the common sights of the world.”—William Butler Yeats

“I shall indeed be happy if this volume contributes to the rediscovery of one of the greatest writers of this century.”—Arthur C. Clarke

“Del Ray is to be thanked for bringing these works back into print. No one can understand modern fantasy without understanding its roots, and Lord Dunsany's work is immediately significant as well as enjoyable even today.”—Katharine Kerr

“A fantasy novel in a class with the Tolkien books.”—L. Sprague de Camp

L'autore:

Lord Dunsany was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth baron of an ancient line. He hunted lions in Africa, taught English in Athens, fought in the Boer and Kaiserian wars, and was wounded in the service of his country. As senior peer of Ireland, he saw three sovereigns crowned at Westminster; part of the renaissance of Irish drama, he hobnobbed with Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory during the great days of Dublin's Abbey Theatre. He was peer, sportsman, soldier, playwright, globe-trotter, and once chess champion of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.  He wrote more than sixty books before his death in 1957 and influenced some of the greatest writers of our time including H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Fritz Leiber.

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• Editore: Del Rey
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 034543191X
• ISBN 13: 9780345431912
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240