Kingdoms Of Elfin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Sylvia Townsend Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin is a masterwork of darkly enchanting fantasy — a collection of sixteen interconnected stories that conjures a world of fairy courts, immortal creatures, and the quietly devastating consequences of immortality lived alongside mortal frailty. Set across an array of elfin kingdoms from the Scottish highlands to the palaces of Versailles, each tale presents a richly imagined civilization governed by capricious queens, indifferent courtiers, and changelings caught between two worlds, all rendered with a detachment that makes the cruelty all the more chilling and the tenderness all the more piercing. Warner, celebrated for her singular prose style — precise, ironic, and suffused with an almost anthropological cool — constructs her elfin societies as oblique mirrors of human institutions, satirising class, power, loyalty, and love with the lightest and most lethal of touches. First published in The New Yorker before being gathered into this 1977 Chatto & Windus edition, these stories represent the final major flowering of a remarkable literary career, and they remain among the most quietly radical works of twentieth-century British fantasy. Readers who enter Warner's elfin kingdoms may find that the door back to the ordinary world is harder to locate than they imagined.
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Fantasy
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Sylvia Townsend Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin is a masterwork of darkly enchanting fantasy — a collection of sixteen interconnected stories that conjures a world of fairy courts, immortal creatures, and the quietly devastating consequences of immortality lived alongside mortal frailty. Set across an array of elfin kingdoms from the Scottish highlands to the palaces of Versailles, each tale presents a richly imagined civilization governed by capricious queens, indifferent courtiers, and changelings caught between two worlds, all rendered with a detachment that makes the cruelty all the more chilling and the tenderness all the more piercing. Warner, celebrated for her singular prose style — precise, ironic, and suffused with an almost anthropological cool — constructs her elfin societies as oblique mirrors of human institutions, satirising class, power, loyalty, and love with the lightest and most lethal of touches. First published in The New Yorker before being gathered into this 1977 Chatto & Windus edition, these stories represent the final major flowering of a remarkable literary career, and they remain among the most quietly radical works of twentieth-century British fantasy. Readers who enter Warner's elfin kingdoms may find that the door back to the ordinary world is harder to locate than they imagined.