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Indlæser... Kingdoms of Elfin (1976)af Sylvia Townsend Warner
  
Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  Maddz | Dec 31, 2018 |    )1  deckla | Nov 10, 2018 | from the Dogear Diary (  )1 jeane | Oct 19, 2017 |  ) antiquary | Apr 21, 2017 | Looking about for shelter, they saw a ruined castle on the hilltop (at that date the Scottish Border was peppered with ruined castles)." ",,, court life at B. was much the same as in other Kingdoms. There were fashions of the moment - collecting butterflies, determining the pict of birdsongs, table-turning, cat races, purifying the language, building card castles." And yet mostly the stories are melancholy, even tragic. The roles of Fate and Tradition have much more influence on the lives of both mortals and fairies than those peoples' own actions or character have. Few of the stories end, per se, and even fewer end with a Happily Ever After. I can absolutely see Literary people going ga-ga over it. I wish I enjoyed it more. But somehow it seemed as weighted as gossamer, and all too soon it will fade as dreams do.... ;)" ( ) Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |
Endorsed with a cover blurb by Neil Gaiman'Handheld Classic's republication this month is a triumph, with a beautiful Arthur Rackham cover' The Bookseller, Paperback Preview Book of the Month for October, 27 July 2018.Sylvia Townsend Warner's final collection of short stories was originally published in The New Yorker, and appeared in book form in 1977. This reprint brings these sixteen sly and enchanting stories of Elfindom to a new readership, and shows Warner's mastery of realist fantasy that recalls the success of her first novel, the witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes (1926). Warner explores the morals, domestic practices, politics and passions of the Kingdoms of Elfin by following their affairs with mortals, and their daring flights across the North Sea. The Kingdoms of Brocéliande in France, Zuy in the Low Countries, Gedanken in Austria and Blokula in Lappland entertain Ambassadors, hunt with wolves and rear changelings for the courtiers' amusement. But love and hate strike at fairies of all ranks, as do poverty and the passions of the heart. Enter Elfindom with care.The Foreword is by the noted US fantasy author Greer Gilman, and the Introduction is by Ingrid Hotz-Davies. No library descriptions found. |
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The Faeries of this book are divided into many kingdoms that seem set into the courtliness of the Ancien Regime, but the faeries themselves just are; long-lived but not immortal, and not troubled by notions of religion or scholarship except as a means of whiling away time. Faerie society is very much classified: the aristocracy are primarily courtiers and think it déclassé to fly, the servants can and do fly. Their interactions with hunans are, by and large, without malice, but they do take mortal babies, turning them out when the adult grows old.
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