Lud-in-the-Mist
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Subjects: Fantasy fiction; Fairies -- Fiction; Imaginary places -- Fiction; Fantasy
First sentence: The Free State of Dorimare was a very small country, but, seeing that it was bounded on the south by the sea and on the north and east by mountains, while its centre consisted of a rich plain, watered by two rivers, a considerable variety of scenery and vegetation was to be found within its borders.
Description: <p>Two hundred years ago, merchants in the small country of Dorimare, weary of the capricious nature of the ruling class, cast out the aristocracy and established their own government. Believing that their former rulers’ erratic behavior was caused by their neighbors in Fairyland, the mention of anything fairy quickly became taboo among Dorimare’s citizens.</p> <p>Now, though, illicit trade of fairy fruit is on the rise in the border town of Lud-in-the-Mist and the government seems powerless to stop it. As influential families fall victim to the maddening effects of the fruit it becomes clear that someone is working to undermine the status quo, and the Mayor needs to discover who it is before it’s too late.</p> <p><i>Lud-in-the-Mist</i> is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hope-mirrlees">Hope Mirrlees’s</a> third and most popular book. It has been reprinted several times, and was a part of the Fantasy Masterworks series produced by Orion Books. It has been referred to as a masterpiece of fantasy literature, with Neil Gaiman calling it “a little golden miracle of a book.”</p>
Table of contents: label: I:
title: Master Nathaniel Chanticleer; label: II:
title: The Duke Who Laughed Himself Off a Throne and Other Traditions of Dorimare; label: III:
title: The Beginning of Trouble; label: IV:
title: Endymion Leer Prescribes for Ranulph; label: V:
title: Ranulph Goes to the Widow Gibberty’s Farm; label: VI:
title: The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms; label: VII:
title: Master Ambrose Chases a Wild Goose and Has a Vision; label: VIII:
title: Endymion Leer Looks Frightened, and a Breach Is Made in an Old Friendship; label: IX:
title: Panic and the Silent People; label: X:
title: Hempie’s Song; label: XI:
title: A Stronger Antidote Than Reason; label: XII:
title: Dame Marigold Hears the Tap of a Woodpecker; label: XIII:
title: What Master Nathaniel and Master Ambrose Found in the Guildhall; label: XIV:
title: Dead in the Eye of the Law; label: XV:
title: “Ho, Ho, Hoh!”; label: XVI:
title: The Widow Gibberty’s Trial; label: XVII:
title: The World-in-Law; label: XVIII:
title: Mistress Ivy Peppercorn; label: XIX:
title: The Berries of Merciful Death; label: XX:
title: Watching the Cows; label: XXI:
title: The Old Goatherd; label: XXII:
title: Who Is Portunus?; label: XXIII:
title: The Northern Firebox and Dead Men’s Tales; label: XXIV:
title: Belling the Cat; label: XXV:
title: The Law Crouches and Springs; label: XXVI:
title: “Neither Trees nor Men”; label: XXVII:
title: The Fair in the Elfin Marches; label: XXVIII:
title: “By the Sun, Moon and Stars and the Golden Apples of the West”; label: XXIX:
title: A Message Comes to Hazel and the First Swallow to Dame Marigold; label: XXX:
title: Master Ambrose Keeps His Vow; label: XXXI:
title: The Initiate; label: XXXII:
title: Conclusion