Lud-in-the-MistThe 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. Until the spring of his fiftieth year, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist and High Seneschal of Dorimare, had lived a sleepy life with his only son, Ranulph. But as he grew, Ranulph was more and more fond of talking nonsense about golden cups, and snow-white ladies milking azure cows, and the sound of tinkling bridles at midnight. And when Ranulph was twelve, he got caught up with the fairies, and Nathaniel's life would never be the same. |
Contents
The Beginning of Trouble | |
Endymion Leer Prescribes for Ranulph | |
Ranulph Goes to the Widow Gibbertys Farm | |
The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms | |
Master Ambrose Chases a Wild Goose and Has a Vision | |
Endymion Leer Looks Frightened and a Breach Is Made In an Old Friendship | |
The WorldinLaw | |
Mistress Ivy Peppercorn | |
The Berries of Merciful Death | |
Watching the Cows | |
The Old Goatherd | |
Who is Portunus? | |
The Northern Firebox and Dead Mens Tales | |
Belling the | |
Panic and the Silent People | |
Hempies Song | |
A Stronger Antidote than Reason | |
Dame Marigold Hears the Tap of a Woodpecker | |
What Master Nathaniel and Master Ambrose Found in the Guildhall | |
Dead in the Eye of the | |
Ho Ho Hoh | |
The Widow Gibbertys Trial | |
The Law Crouches and Springs | |
Neither Trees Nor Men | |
The Fair in the Elfin Marches | |
By the Sun Moon and Stars and the Golden Apples of the West | |
A Message Comes to Hazel and the First Swallow to Dame Marigold | |
Master Ambrose Keeps His | |
The Initiate | |
Conclusion | |
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