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Plasencia was a square, medium-sized house of red brick, built some sixty years ago, in those days when architects knew a great deal about comfort, but cared so little about line that every house they designed, however spacious, was uncompromisingly a “villa.” Viewed from the front, it was substantial and home-like, and suggested, even in the height of summer, a “merry Christmas” and fire-light glinting off the leaves of holly; from the back, however, it had a look of instability, of someh...

"The Counterplot" is a novel set in a fictional European country and is known for its intricate and somewhat surreal narrative. The story revolves around a complex political intrigue and a series of machinations involving various characters with hidden agendas.The plot features a mix of political scheming, espionage, and personal drama. The protagonist becomes entangled in the counterplot, which involves deception and manipulation, leading to unexpected twists and turns. The novel explores...

Hope Mirrlees' "The Counterplot" intricately weaves the fabric of narrative experimentation with a vivid landscape of Anglo-Saxon lore and early 20th-century literary modernism. Published in 1921, this novel embodies a unique literary style that blends a rich, descriptive prose with fragmented storytelling techniques. Mirrlees draws upon her deep understanding of the mythical and the historical, crafting a plot that is both a critique of societal norms and a celebration of the personal jou...

"The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... a little golden miracle of a book." —Neal GaimanHope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist--a classic fantasy, and her only fantasy novel--in 1926. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects."Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887. Mirrlees was a c...

In the land of Dorimare, on the shores of the Dapple and the Dawl, the law-abiding residents of Lud-in-the-Mist are plagued by an illegal influx of fairy fruit enticing people to acts of poetry, dancing, and other dangerous flights of fancy. When respectable Mayor Nathaniel Chanticleer finds his family entangled in the scandal, he must call upon both his sharp legal mind and his unacknowledged creative spirit to craft a reconciliation with the Faerie. Dare to embrace your wild sid...

First published in 1926, ‘Lud-In-The-Mist’ is a fiction novel and significant masterpiece by Hope Mirrlees, a British poet, novelist, and translator.It is the third and last novel of Mirrlees’s. Lud-in-the-mist is in effect a magical murder mystery, complete with hints, detectives, and courtroom drama. It is also the story of an estranged father and son, a man estranged from himself, and a people estranged from their history. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Fairyland, illegal tra...

Spanning several decades of her life, multiple continents, and significant events, this collection of Hope Mirrlees's poetry includes previously unpublished work and the modernist writer's later poems and essays, written circa 1920. Also included is the full text of Paris: A Poem—a daylong, psycho-geographical flânerie through the streets and metro tunnels of post–World War I Paris. Groundbreaking and illuminating, this volume is a testament to Mirrlees's contribution to 20th-cent...

The book that New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman considers "one of the finest [fantasy novels] in the English language."Between the mountains and the sea, between the sea and Fairyland, lay the Free State of Dorimare and its picturesque capital, Lud-in-the-Mist. No Luddite ever had any truck with fairies or Fairyland. Bad business, those fairies. The people of Dorimare had run them out generations ago--and the Duke of Dorimare along with them.

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 state of Dorimare, must contend with the influx of fairy fruit and the effect of the inhabitants of the bordering land of Faerie, whose presence and very existence they had sought to banish from their rational lives. When the denial proves futile, their mayor, the respectable Nathaniel Chanticleer, finds himself involved reluctantly with the conflict and oblige...

The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit.The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mother...

First published in 1926, ‘Lud-In-The-Mist’ is a fiction novel and significant masterpiece by Hope Mirrlees, a British poet, novelist, and translator. It is the third and last novel of Mirrlees’s. Lud-in-the-mist is in effect a magical murder mystery, complete with hints, detectives, and courtroom drama. It is also the story of an estranged father and son, a man estranged from himself, and a people estranged from their history. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Fairyland, illegal tr...

Earth was never humanity's birthplace.It was our hiding place.When Australian SAS soldiers Rosco Martin and Fergie Moore uncover an impossible device beneath the Outback, they trigger a signal buried for sixty-five million years.Across the world, archaeologist Dr Elizabeth Jones discovers the same symbols on an artifact recovered beneath Antarctic ice. The markings point beyond Earth—and towards a war erased from human memory.