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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780345431912
ISBN: 034543191X
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: July 06, 1999
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: July 06, 1999
Sales Rank: 54731
Studio: Del Rey
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Rating:  - If you only read one book that Lord Dunsany ever wrote, this should be it.
I've been sitting at my keyboard for a few minutes, trying to figure out how to describe this book: it's perfect. In the sense that you are transported *somewhere else* this rises to the level of mastery that only a very few fantasy writers, namely Gaiman, Storm Constantine, Zelazny, and Tolkien have managed; it's almost as if the places it takes you actually exist somewhere else.
(This is another one of those, "What Neil Gaiman says to read" things. He's right again.)
Rating: - The Change in the World
"The King of Elfland's Daughter" by Lord Dunsany, ©1924, renewed 1951, Introduction© 1999
This was a not so great story, but the tone or tenor of the writing was extraordinary. In the introduction, Mr. Neil Gaiman, comments, "...the writing is beautiful. Dunsany wrote his books, we are told, with a quill pen, dipping and scritching and flowing his prose over sheets of paper, and his words sing, like those of a poet who got drunk on the prose of the King James Bible, and who has ... Read More
Rating: - The illusive boundary between the fields we know, and the fields that we do not...
I'll be brief here. Quite simply, I wish that I would have been introduced to this book three or four decades ago. I've read fantasy off and on for most of my life but somehow I missed this gem of the first and best. It is immediately obvious where Tolkien received much of his inspiration, but it is also equally recognizable where this book heavily influenced later writers such as Moorcock. In fact, it seems that nothing since has really matched Lord Dunsany's works- they are the original inspiration ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Free SF Reader
Elves and princesses.
And for me, not much of interest to be found.
This isn't a bad book, just a dull one. The archaic style will certainly be a turnoff to some readers.
Human man meets elf princess, culture clash, etc.
Rating: - Classic of fantasy
A book that many attribute as the start of modern fantasy. The downside to this, being that so many stories have used this for inspiration that it can seem predictable, but still an interesting read for tales of a far off land and magic.
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