Lud-in-the-mist

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Millennium, 2000 - Faerie (Imaginary place) - 273 pages
This is the story of the mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, a respectable burgher who learns that his young son has eaten forbidden fairy fruit. Some centuries earlier, fairy things had been looked upon with reverence, and fairy fruit was enjoyed by the people of the port town of Dorimare. But since the burghers had taken over, fairy things have become unspeakable and there are problems in the trafficking of illegal fairy fruit. When a plague of faerie influences hits the town, steps must be taken.

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Helen Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British author of novels and poems, whose three novels are Lud-in-the-Mist, Madeleine, Counterplot and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems.She was one of the Bloomsbury Group and counted among her good friends T.S Eliot, William Butler Yeats and Virginia Woolf.Previous titles:Lud-in-the-Mist (TPB Feb 01);Madeleine;Counterplot;Moods and Tensions: Poems

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