A high epic of royal revenge and romance, wizardry and warfare… and a quest that has no end!
Wonders Without End
His freedom from the overlordship of Witchland won in fair fight, Lord Juss of Demonland was nearly slain by the treacherous wizardry of the Witch-King Gorice and… Juss’s brother, Goldry Bluszco, was spirited from the sight of men.
To rescue Goldry Bluszco and destroy forever the power of Witchland, Juss had but the tattered remnants of his army, two heroes to fight by his side – and the night-sent vision that laid it on him to dare the dread slopes of Koshtra Belorn… the slopes that few had looked on and none had conquered.
The Worm Ouroboros weaves the red thread of blood, the golden thread of romance, the black thread of dire sorcery and treason with the warm hues of high adventure and daring into a fantastic tapestry that unrolls richly in never-ending wonder and delight!
CONTENTS
Introduction (1952) by Orville Prescott (xiii-xiipp)
Introduction (1967) by James Stephens (xix-xxpp)
1-520 • The Worm Ouroboros • (1922) • novel (1-520pp)
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First published in 1922 by Jonathan Cape
Cover art by Murray Tinkelman
Interior art by Keith Henderson
First Ballantine Books edition: April 1967
Tenth U. S. printing: November 1977
pages xxii+[2]+520
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[“A majestic romance and an enduring masterpiece”]
[“An epic fantasy to compare with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings”]
► This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this 1922 landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story of a remote planet’s great war between two kingdoms, it ranks as the Iliad of heroic fantasy.
In the best traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and Arthurian myths, author E. R. Eddison weaves a compelling adventure, with a majestic, Shakespearean narrative style. His sweeping tale recounts battles between warriors and witches on fog-shrouded mountaintops and in the ocean’s depths-along with romantic interludes, backroom intrigues, and episodes of direst treachery. Generations of readers have joyfully lost themselves in the timeless worlds of The Worm Ouroboros. ◄ Dover Books, 2006
► In 1922, Eddison published his first novel The Worm Ourobouros, a novel of daring adventures and dastardly treachery set in a never-never-land on Mercury; his four novels channelled the evolution of genre fantasy, not least by being much admired by both Lewis and Tolkien. The gallant and noble lords of Demonland are threatened by an assortment of villains–the various kings Gorice of Witchland and the thuggish generals of their court, aided and abetted by the compulsively treacherous Lord Gro; Gro is one of the more fascinating villains in fantasy: charismatic, intelligent, sensitive and flawed. Eddison was obsessed with the poetry and prose of the Elizabethan era–not trusting his own poetic skills, he simply has his characters quote sonnets and epigrams and ballads, some of them famous; when his characters deliver heroic defiance or counsel betrayal, it is always in a rhetoric that for once sounds like what the characters of a heroic age might say. What makes The Worm Ourobouros a classic fantasy is, quite simply, that it has some of the best battle scenes, some of the more terrifying scenes of magic and some of the most tender love scenes that the genre has ever achieved–it is nice to have it back again. ◄ Roz Kaveney (Pan Ballantine, 1973)
Series: The Zimiamvian Trilogy (#0)
Setting: Zimiamvia, Mercury
Characters: Barganax, Duke of Zayana, Horius Parry, Vicar of Rerek, Edward Lessingham, Lady Fiorinda, King Mezentius, Gorice XII, Lord Juss, Lord Goldry Bluszco, Lord Spitfire, Lord Brandoch Daha Click to expand…
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