Most Popular Books by E. R. Eddison

This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story of a remote planet''s great war between two kingdoms, it ranks as the Iliad of heroic fantasy. In the best traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and Arthurian myths, author E. R. Eddison weaves a compelling adventure, with a majestic, Shakespearean narrative style. His sweeping tale recounts battles between warriors and witches on fog-shrouded mountaintops and in the ocean''s depths-along with romantic interludes, backroom intrigues, and episodes of direst treachery.

Edward Lessingham of England is dead, the last chapter of his extraordinary life written. Edward Lessingham of Zimiamvia is alive: now Lord Lessingham, cousin to the villainous Vicar of Rerek, scourge of King Mezentius in that fabled land. But the king is dead and his passing has left a dangerous power vacuum and the fate of the three kingdoms in the balance. Lord Lessingham makes valiant attempts to bring peace to the land but is stalled by the vicar''s treachery and the strange ties that bind him to his cousin. Ties that may yet lead to bloody conflict in the three kingdoms . . .

The lost classic masterpiece of magical realms, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction.

The English author E. R. Eddison wrote epic fantasy novels, including the seminal work ‘The Worm Ouroboros’ (1922) and the ‘Zimiamvian Trilogy’. His books are composed in a meticulous Jacobean prose style, supplemented throughout with poetic fragments from world classic literature, exhibiting an aristocratic sensibility. His high fantasy works drew strong praise from J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. This eBook presents Eddison’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Eddison’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 5 novels, with individual contents tables * The complete Zimiamvian Books * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare Norse Books available in no other collection * Includes Eddison’s non-fiction, including the revealing memoir of his college friend and poet Philip Sidney Nairn * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Zimiamvia Books The Worm Ouroboros (1922) Mistress of Mistresses (1935) A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941) The Mezentian Gate (1958) The Norse Books Styrbiorn the Strong (1926) Egil’s Saga (1930) Other Works Poems, Letters, and Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn (1916) Profiteering (1922) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

In early 20th-century England, Edward Lessingham and Lasy Mary Scarnsdale conduct a passionate if tumultuous courtship. After the First World War, they raise their children in their Cumbrian idyll, until tragedy strikes. On the world of Zimiamvia, Duke Barganax pursues the divine Lady Florinda who toys with his affections like a cat with a mouse. Meanwhile, King Mezentius struggles to hold his Threee Kingdoms together against the intrigues of his enemies. And over a fish dinner in Memison the true relationship between worlds and lovers will be made shockingly clear . . .

The third volume in the classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction.

Egil''s Saga is the tale of the long and brutal life of Egil Skallagrimsson, the tenth-century warrior-poet: a morally ambiguous character who was both the composer of intricately beautiful poetry and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. It recounts Egil''s progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father''s exile from Norway, defend his honour against the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe, and fight for the English King Athelstan in his battles against Scotland. Translated from Icelandic by the great fantasist, E R Eddison, and accounted by many to be the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, Egil''s Saga is a fascinating depiction of a deeply human character.

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Eric Rücker Eddison wich are The Worm and Mistress of Mistresses. Eddison''s books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often directly copied from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse sagas and French medieval lyric poems. Critic Andy Sawyer has noted that such fragments seem to arise naturally from the "barbarically sophisticated" worlds Eddison has created. Novels selected for this book: - The Worm. - Mistress of Mistresses. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

The classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction. Also includes The Worm Ouroboros.

A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairn by the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroboros and the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy.

A Nebula Award winner presents tales that shaped modern science fiction and fantasy—five complete novels by Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, and more. In this handpicked collection, New York Times–bestselling author Greg Bear travels back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when novelists let their imaginations soar beyond conventional boundaries of time and space and contributed to the emergence of imaginative new literary genres. In 1889, Mark Twain introduced Americans to time travel in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, in which a hard-headed New Englander is sent back through history to the age of chivalry. Six years later, H. G. Wells propelled an intrepid inventor into the far future via The Time Machine; there, our fearless hero discovers a nightmarish evolutionary scenario in which technologically advanced but mutated Morlocks dwell underground, preying on the innocent aboveground Eloi. In 1912, long before Ray Bradbury or Star Wars, Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined the first wildly popular alternative fantasy/alien culture with A Princess of Mars, transporting readers from Arizona to the red planet, where Confederate soldier John Carter is swept up in another kind of civil war and seduced by a gorgeous red-hued princess. In 1920, Scottish novelist David Lindsay presented A Voyage to Arcturus, an interstellar quest for truth as well as an inquiry into the nature of good and evil that inspired generations of fantasy writers to come. And in 1922, E. R. Eddison turned the planet Mercury into a fantasy version of Earth where demons and witches wage war on a Homeric scale in The Worm Ouroboros. With an insightful introduction, Bear celebrates the writers who first swept readers away to other times and worlds—and blew their minds in ways that altered our literary landscape and collective imagination forever.

THE DRAGON OUROBOROS - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With Original Illustrations. The Dragon Ouroboros was first published in 1933 under the title "The Worm Ouroboros". Professor J.R.R. Tolkien read the story, and praised it in print, writing in a letter that he enjoyed Eddison''s books for their sheer literary merit. Eddison, he stated, was the greatest and most convincing writer of "invented worlds" he had ever read. Tolkien''s close friend and confidante C.S. Lewis was also an admirer. This heroic high fantasy novel has been compared with Tolkien''s "The Lord of the Rings", which was written many years later. Readers will swiftly become accustomed to Eddison''s archaic language and find themselves swept away by the imagery, which is frequently beautiful. It is easy to see why Tolkien was impressed with Eddison''s unusual, sprawling and imaginative work, a literary predecessor to "The Lord of the Rings".

Krieg ist entbrannt im Lande Merkurien – ein Krieg zwischen Hexen und Dämonen: Doch König Gorice von Hexenland kämpft mit dunklen Mächten an seiner Seite, und so müssen die Dämonenfürsten Juss und Brandoch Daha den Gipfel des höchsten aller Berge erklimmen, von dem kein Sterblicher je zurückgekehrt ist, um das Schicksal zu ihren Gunsten zu wenden. Vor den Toren Carcës wird die gewaltigste Schlacht geschlagen, die die Welt je erblickte, und sie entscheidet über Untergang oder zeitlosen Ruhm. Und um all dies Geschehen windet sich der Wurm Ouroboros, der Drache, der seinen eigenen Schweif verschlingt... Der Wurm Ouroboros von E. R. Eddison ist unumstritten eines der großen Meisterwerke der modernen Fantasy-Literatur, ein Epos, in welchem Sprache und Handlung zu einem Kunstwerk verschmelzen; wie auch Tolkiens Der Herr der Ringe hat dieser Roman ein ganzes Genre geprägt. Der Apex-Verlag veröffentlicht zum Start der Reihe APEX FANTASY-KLASSIKER eine durchgesehene Neu-Ausgabe des Romans, ergänzt um ein Nachwort des Übersetzers Helmut W. Pesch.

E. R. Eddisons klassischer Saga-Roman Styrbjörn der Starke, erstmals im Jahre 1926 erschienen, erzählt die großartige Geschichte von Styrbjörn Olafsson, dem Erben des schwedischen Throns: Styrbjörn ist bekannt sowohl für seine beeindruckende Größe und Stärke als auch für seine widerspenstige, streitsüchtige Natur. Als ihm sein Geburtsrecht verweigert und er aus Schweden verbannt wird, wird Styrbjörn zum Anführer der Joms-Wikinger. In der epischen Schlacht von Fyrisfeld fordert er schließlich den schwedischen Thron für sich zurück... Styrbjörn der Starke, verfasst in Anlehnung an die nordischen Sagas, ist ohne Zweifel eine der ganz großen Wiederentdeckungen der Fantasy-Literatur, meisterhaft ins Deutsche übersetzt von Helmut W. Pesch. Der Apex-Verlag veröffentlicht den Roman ergänzt um einen umfangreichen Anhang sowie um Landkarten und ein Nachwort des Übersetzers Helmut W. Pesch.

The Worm Ouroboros Volume 2 By E. R. Eddison This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story of a remote planet''s great war between two kingdoms, it ranks as the Iliad of heroic fantasy. In the best traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and Arthurian myths, author E. R. Eddison weaves a compelling adventure, with a majestic, Shakespearean narrative style. His sweeping tale recounts battles between warriors and witches on fog-shrouded mountaintops and in the ocean''s depths-along with romantic interludes, backroom intrigues, and episodes of direst treachery. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Worm Ouroboros Volume 1 By E. R. Eddison This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story of a remote planet''s great war between two kingdoms, it ranks as the Iliad of heroic fantasy. In the best traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and Arthurian myths, author E. R. Eddison weaves a compelling adventure, with a majestic, Shakespearean narrative style. His sweeping tale recounts battles between warriors and witches on fog-shrouded mountaintops and in the ocean''s depths-along with romantic interludes, backroom intrigues, and episodes of direst treachery. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.