![]() ![]() So make sure your eReader has a decent dictionary built in, because you'll be constantly looking up Olde English terms.Īn enjoyable trip through a weird symbolic world. Some of the language is archaic - and I suspect it was deliberately outdated when it was first published. The discussion revolves around Mirrlees herself, the undertones of class in the story, and how it further explores tension between city and country, center and periphery. It's not written in rhyming couplets, but has the same rhythm. Ben reviews Hope Mireless novel Lud-In-The-MistFor more book talk from The Sci-Fi Christian, friend us on GoodreadsMatts Goodreads account. To celebrate 3,000 followers on Twitter, Eden sits down for a solo episode exploring Hope Mirrlees 'Lud-In-The-Mist', a forgotten classic of faerie metaphor. ![]() It feels like you're experiencing it while you're sleeping. It's a dream of a book - in a very literal sense. If you've read "Jonathan Strange" or "Sorcerer to the Crown" or any modern fantasy book - this is where it started. In many ways, this is the ur-fantasy-novel. Lud-in-the-Mist is a hundred years old - but reads like it was written yesterday. But with the disappearance of his own daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his young son, he realises that something is changing in Lud - and something must be done. ![]() Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. ![]()
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