Lud-in-the-Mist
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- First published
- 1926
- Pages
- 233
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Chapter I. Master Nathaniel Chanticleer
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Chapter II. The Duke Who Laughed Himself Off a Throne and Other Traditions of Dorimare
25:38 -
Chapter III. The Beginning of Trouble
38:07 -
Chapter IV. Endymion Leer Prescribes for Ranulph
38:09 -
Chapter V. Ranulph Goes to the Widow Gibberty's Farm
36:22 -
Chapter VI. The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms
29:40 -
Chapter VII. Master Ambrose Chases a Wild Goose and Has a Vision
22:00 -
Chapter VIII. Endymion Leer Looks Frightened, and a Breach Is Made in an Old Friendship
29:41 -
Chapter IX. Panic and the Silent People
16:23 -
Chapter X. Hempie's Song
21:03 -
Chapter XI. A Stronger Antidote Than Reason
12:40 -
Chapter XII. Dame Marigold Hears the Tap of a Woodpecker
27:17 -
Chapter XIII. What Master Nathaniel and Master Ambrose Found in the Guildhall
29:33 -
Chapter XIV. Dead in the Eye of the Law
8:22 -
Chapter XV. "Ho, Ho, Hoh!"
11:52 -
Chapter XVI. The Widow Gibberty's Trial
12:25 -
Chapter XVII. The World-in-Law
14:56 -
Chapter XVIII. Mistress Ivy Peppercorn
29:59 -
Chapter XIX. The Berries of Merciful Death
11:05 -
Chapter XX. Watching the Cows
25:04 -
Chapter XXI. The Old Goatherd
12:51 -
Chapter XXII. Who Is Portunus?
25:52 -
Chapter XXIII. The Northern Fire-box and Dead Men's Tales
20:00 -
Chapter XXIV. Belling the Cat
15:39 -
Chapter XXV. The Law Crouches and Springs
11:18 -
Chapter XXVI. "Neither Trees Nor Men"
22:20 -
Chapter XXVII. The Fair in the Elfin Marches
23:33 -
Chapter XXVIII. "By the Sun, Moon and Stars and the Golden Apples of the West"
10:21 -
Chapter XXIX. A Message Comes to Hazel and the First Swallow to Dame Marigold
20:58 -
CHAPTER XXX. Master Ambrose Keeps His Vow
12:17 -
Chapter XXXI. The Initiate
7:50 -
Chapter XXXII. Conclusion
7:55
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In the prosperous town of Lud-in-the-Mist, the merchant class long ago overthrew its whimsical duke and outlawed everything touching the neighboring realm of Faerie, above all the delicious, dangerous fairy fruit smuggled across the river. Respectability holds until Mayor Nathaniel Chanticleer discovers that his own son has tasted the forbidden fruit, and he is forced to venture into the country he was taught to fear. Hope Mirrlees blends fairy tale, detective story, and quiet social comedy into a strange, lovely book about what a society loses when it denies mystery and death. Long neglected, it has since been championed by Neil Gaiman and others as a foundational work of modern fantasy.
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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. Indeed, towards the west, in striking contrast with the pastoral sobriety of the central plain, the aspect of the country became, if not tropical, at any rate distinctly exotic. Nor was this to be wondered at, perhaps; for beyond the Debatable Hills (the boundary of Dorimare in the west) lay Fairyland. There had, however, been no intercourse between the two countries for many centuries.
The social and commercial centre of Dorimare was its capital, Lud-in-the-Mist, which was situated at the confluence of two rivers about ten miles from the sea and fifty from the Elfin Hills.
Lud-in-the-Mist had all the things that make an old town pleasant. It had an ancient Guild Hall, built of mellow golden bricks and covered with ivy and, when the sun shone on it, it looked like a rotten apricot; it had a harbour in which rode vessels with white and red and tawny sails; it had flat brick houses—not the mere carapace of human beings, but ancient living creatures, renewing and modifying themselves with each generation under their changeless antique roofs. It had old arches, framing delicate landscapes that one could walk into, and a picturesque old graveyard on the top of a hill, and little open squares where comic baroque statues of dead citizens held levees attended by birds and lovers and insects and children. It had, indeed, more than its share of pleasant things; for, as we have seen, it had two rivers.
Also, it was plentifully planted with trees.
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Book facts
- Author
- Hope Mirrlees
- First published
- 1926
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 233
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Mythic Fantasy
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Nicole J. LeBoeuf