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Lud-In-The-Mist
- Author
- Hope Mirrlees
- Narrator
- Eleanor Bron, Neil Gaiman
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 25 April 2019
- Run Time
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
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. 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.
Lud-in-the-Mist is a true classic, an adult fairy tale exploring the need to embrace what we fear and to come to terms with 'the shadows' - those sweet and dark impulses that our public selves ignore or repress.
Featuring a foreword read by Neil Gaiman'
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018
Critics Review
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The single most beautiful and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century
Neil Gaiman
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A Shakespearian tragi-comedy, a murder mystery and a multi-faceted allegory all in one; and a damn good story, too
Mary Gentle
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What we have here is that rarest of creatures, the fantasy novel of ideas
Michael Swanwick
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[involves] fundamental questions of how a society and its members understand their own history, and how they make sense of the conflicts embedded in social class and political power
TLS
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Details
- Author
- Hope Mirrlees
- Narrator
- Eleanor Bron, Neil Gaiman
- Duration
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 April 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473227880
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Folklore studies / Study of myth
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. 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. 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. 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. Lud-in-the-Mist is a true classic, an adult fairy tale exploring the need to embrace what we fear and to come to terms with 'the shadows' - those sweet and dark impulses that our public selves ignore or repress.Featuring a foreword read by Neil Gaiman'(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018
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