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10 best books like Jurgen (James Branch Cabell): The Charwoman's Shadow, Lud-in-the-Mist, The Circus of Dr. Lao, The Wood Beyond the World, The Well of the Unicorn, Neveryóna, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Phoenix and the Mirror, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair Literature Unit Study C S Lewis Narnia, The Mezentian Gate

The Charwoman's Shadow
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN0345431928
Do not let the uninspired (and uninspiring) cover of the Del Rey edition to keep you away from this masterpiece, an exquisite counterpart for the first Shadow Valley chronicle.
This time the protagonist follows not the ways of the sword, as Don Rodriguez did in the first chronicle, but the ways of...
Lud-in-the-Mist
AuthorHope Mirrlees
ISBN1593600410
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had...
The Circus of Dr. Lao
AuthorCharles G. Finney
ISBN0803269072
Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression. That is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone...
The Wood Beyond the World
AuthorWilliam Morris
ISBN1587152142
"The Wood Beyond the World" was first published in 1894 and its author, William Morris is often considered one of the authors who aided in the growth of fantasy, utopian literature, and science fiction. C.S. Lewis cites William Morris as one of his favorite authors and J.R.R. Tolkein admits to being...
The Well of the Unicorn
AuthorFletcher Pratt
ISBN0345297296
Robbed of lands and heritage by the rapacious Vulkings, young Airar Alvarson had only his limited gift for sorcery to aid him against a world of savage intrigues. Then he met a mysterious sorcerer and was given a strange iron ring -- a ring that led him into a futile conspiracy and soon had him fleeing for...
Neveryóna
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN0819562718
In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable...
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 Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair Literature Unit Study C S Lewis Narnia
AuthorTeresa Lilly
This is a unit study only. It does NOT include the novel.

To get this unit in a full PDF with cut outs to create a lapbook,
order it directly from the publisher.

This unit study offers many wonderful activities to use while having students read the
book. There are between 6 and...
The Mezentian Gate
AuthorE.R. Eddison
ISBN0345272218
OK, this one is also complicated ... Not so much the broad strokes of the story, this time, though; rather, it's the structure of the book. Unfortunately, Eddison died before completing it; fortunately, he did leave enough notes to allow the book to be understandable even in partial form. Apparently,...
Rhialto the Marvellous
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0671559915
Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by “ensqualming” or...
Pilgermann
AuthorRussell Hoban
ISBN0747556407
For me Pilgermann turned out to be a real discovery – I never suspected that it would possess such intellectual and spiritual profundity and be so masterfully written.
Pilgermann, long dead – a spirit consisting of waves and particles – contemplates the vicissitudes of being…
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