But with the disappearance of his daughter, and long-overdue desire to protect his son, he realizes Lud is changing - and something must be done. Nathaniel Chanticleer, a dreamy, melancholy man, is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. The Dapple springs from the land of Faerie, and is a great trial to Lud, which rejects anything 'other,' preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Lud-in-the-Mist is a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. Read my other book reviews for the challenge HERE. He says that it is one of his top ten favourite books.Author: Hope Mirrlees (British, 1887-1978) He described Mirrleess writing as elegant, supple, effective and haunting: the author demands a great deal from her readers, which she repays many times over. Neil Gaiman described Lud as one of the finest in the English language. David Langford and Mike Ashley describe Lud-in-the-Mist as a moving book, shifting unpredictably from drollery to menace to a high poignancy that sticks in the mind. Review Quotes In a 1946 discussion of fantastic literature, Edward Wagenknecht referred to Hope Mirrlees unappreciated masterpiece Lud-in-the-Mist. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolfs Hogarth Press, which critic Julia Briggs deemed modernisms lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition. Hope Mirrlees was a British poet, novelist, and translator. When the denial proves futile, their mayor, the respectable Nathaniel Chanticleer, finds himself involved reluctantly with the conflict and obliged to change his conventional personal life and disregard the traditions of Lud-in-the-Mist to find a reconciliation. In this novel, the prosaic and law-abiding inhabitants of Lud-in-the-Mist, a city located at the confluence of the rivers Dapple and Dawl, in the fictional state of Dorimare, must contend with the influx of fairy fruit and the effect of the fantastic inhabitants of the bordering land of Faerie, whose presence and very existence they had sought to banish from their rational lives. Lud-in-the-Mists unconventional elements, responsible for its appeal to the fantasy readership, are understood better if they are analyzed in the context of her whole oeuvre. The book is dedicated to the memory of Mirrleess father. Book Synopsis Lud-in-the-Mist begins with a quotation by Jane Harrison, with whom Mirrlees lived in London and Paris, and whose influence is also found in Madeleine and The Counterplot.

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