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Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley

10 best books like Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (Lord Dunsany): The Blue Star, A Fish Dinner in Memison, Hyperborea, Island of the Mighty, Figures of Earth, The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Phoenix and the Mirror, The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, Land of Unreason

The Blue Star
AuthorFletcher Pratt
ISBN0345298527
Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star…and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant...
A Fish Dinner in Memison
AuthorE.R. Eddison
ISBN0345278534
OK, this gets a bit … complicated …

The previous book in the series, Mistress of Mistresses, opened in our own world with the funeral of Lessingham, an older gentleman who’d apparently done great things in his youth. The scene then shifted to Zimiamvia where the death of King Mezentius...
Hyperborea
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0345022068
Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy.

Contents:

"Introduction" (Lin Carter)
Hyperborea
"The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem)
"The Seven Geases"
"The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
"The White Sybil"
"The Testament of Athammaus"
"The Coming of the...
Island of the Mighty
AuthorEvangeline Walton
ISBN0020264720
Tricked into giving birth to him, the sorceress Arianhod swore that the child should be nameless until she named him...that he should not bear arms until she herself bestowed them...and that he should never love a woman of the human race.

But her brother and lover Gwydion tricked her into bestowing...
Figures of Earth
AuthorJames Branch Cabell
ISBN1414298250
Mundus vult decipi - the world wants to be deceived - and the happier man is one whose desires remain unfulfilled inform all of Cabell's writing. As the chroniclers write of Poictesme's redemption:

"For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle,...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1557423954
The Glen Carrig, a sailing ship hits an unseen, large, sharp rock just under the surface of this uncharted ocean in 1757, the survivors of the disastrous sinking float for five days, their precious food supply diminishing, (and hope fades) in two lifeboats, on the sixth a tremendous storm strikes the...
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
AuthorErnest Bramah
ISBN1587152096
Kai Lung's Golden Hours By Ernest Bramah. Preface: Hilaire Belloc. Man is born to make. His business is to construct; to plan; to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end and in which it is far easier to neglect it...
The Phoenix and the Mirror
AuthorAvram Davidson
ISBN0441661564
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

The Phoenix and the Mirror, written by Avram Davidson and published in 1966, is based on the medieval legend that the poet Vergil (The Aeneid) was a mage and sorcerer. Queen Cornelia of Carsus has taken hostage part of Vergil’s soul. This leaves him...
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis
AuthorCharles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
ISBN0330239465
This obscure adventure novel, though popular in its time, is quite entertaining, not exactly literature and that term has been greatly overused, a yardstick... if you like H. Rider Haggard who influenced this author, you'll have an enjoyable read. To me a book is good or bad anything else is superfluous...The...
Land of Unreason
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0440147360
On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only...
Red Moon and Black Mountain
AuthorJoy Chant
ISBN0345021789
When I was a young girl Joy Chant was part of the triarchy from whom I bought and read everything I could get my hands on (the other two being Joan D. Vinge and Elizabeth A. Lynn). So I thought it was about time after all those years to get re-acquainted with my childhood dreams.

As things turned out...
The Sundering Flood
AuthorWilliam Morris
ISBN0345032616
At about the 2/3 mark I started to reconsider what this was about. It is clearly in the vein of a chivalrous romance, its events and adventures unspooling as though from a storyteller's tongue, all sort of strung together and barely contained by the basic frame of Osberne's courtly romance with Elfhild...
Earl Aubec and Other Stories
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN1565049861
This is the 14th volume in the acclaimed Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock. The series collects in newly edited and revised form all the tales of this fantasy master's most famous meta-character, the Eternal Champion. Some aspects of this champion are beloved by countless readers of fantasy,...
The Elfin Ship
AuthorJames P. Blaylock
ISBN0345294912
This is a whimsical story of a cheesemaker, Jonathan Bing, who sets out on a quest to discover why trade to his river town has halted inconveniently right before the Winter holiday season. He and his friend, the Professor Wurzle, seek answers to the mystery, and they transport cheeses themselves to use...
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