Lud-in-the-Mist

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Wildside Press LLC, Sep 1, 2007 - Fiction - 292 pages
Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud, was a man much given to introspection, doubting reality, and dreaming. None of which he revealed naturally. For the town of Lud was a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers, The Dapple and The Dawl, the former having its source in the land of Faerie, beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills to the West.
 

Contents

Master Nathaniel Chanticleer
1
The Duke Who Laughed Himself
9
ill The Beginning of Trouble
19
Endymion Leer Prescribes
35
Ranulph Goes to the Widow
51
The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms
67
Master Ambrose Honeysuckle Chases
80
Endymion Leer Looks Frightened
89
The Berries of Merciful Death
181
Watching the Cows
185
The Old Goatherd
196
Who Is Portunus?
201
The Northern FireBox and Dead Mens Tales
213
Belling the Cat
222
The Law Crouches and Springs
228
Neither Trees Nor Men
233

A Stronger Antidote than Reason
117
Dame Marigold Hears the Tap of
123
Contents CHAPTER PAGE XIII What Master Nathaniel and Master Ambrose Found in the Guildhall
135
Dead in the Eye of the Law
147
Ho Ho Hoh
151
The Widow Gibbertys Trial
156
The WorldinLaw
163
Mistress Ivy Peppercorn
168
The Fair in the Elfin Marches
241
By the Sun Moon and Stars and the Golden Apples of the West
251
A Message Comes to Hazel and the First Swallow to Dame Marigold
255
Master Ambrose Keeps His Vow
264
The Initiate
268
Conclusion
271
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Hope Mirrlees (1887 1978) was an English writer and scholar. She was a friend of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, part of the Bloomsbury literary circle (Mirrlees's poem "Paris" has been called by some critics an undiscovered treasure of modernism), and a close friend and collaborator of the great classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison. She and Harrison divided their time between England and France. She became fluent in French and Russian, and later studied Spanish. "Lud-in-the-Mist" is her best-known work of fantasy.

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