Mythago Wood
10 best books like Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock): Little, Big, Our Lady of Darkness, The Worm Ouroboros, Thomas the Rhymer, The Wood Beyond the World, Peace, Viriconium Nights, A Taste for Nightshade, The Pastel City, Memorias de un solterón
| Author | John Crowley |
| ISBN | 0061120057 |
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0441644171 |
Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave.
This encounter sends Westen on a quest through...
| Author | E.R. Eddison |
| ISBN | 0486447405 |
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 1922 landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0553586971 |
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1587152142 |
"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...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0312890338 |
Congratulations on your purchase/borrowing/piracy of "Peace" by Gene Wolfe! We who have come before you hope you will be very, very satisfied with your purchase, and will come back to it for years to come! Before you enjoy your copy for the first (or second) time, here are some helpful tips:
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| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0441865704 |
This fourth and last volume of the sequence is not a novel, but rather a series of melancholy mood pieces--Schumann's "Night Pieces" come to mind--in which the ill-fated inhabitants of many versions of Viriconium engage in inconclusive quests and rescues while the city that sustains their imaginative...
| Author | Martine Bailey |
| ISBN | 1250056926 |
Manchester 1787. When budding young criminal Mary Jebb swindles Michael Croxon's brother with a blank pound note, he chases her into the night and sets in motion a train of sinister events. Condemned to seven years of transportation to Australia, Mary sends him a 'Penny Heart'-a token of her vow of revenge.
Two...
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0385082630 |
The first book in the Viriconium series: In the distant future, a medieval system rises from the ruins of a technology that destroyed itself. Armored knights ride their horses across dunes of rust, battling for the honor of the Queen. But the knights find more to menace them than mere swords and lances....
| Author | Emilia Pardo Bazán |
| ISBN | 8437621666 |
"Soy solterón, y lo soy con deliberado propósito y casi diría que por convicción religiosa", así se describe don Mauro Pareja, protagonista de Memorias de un solterón, novela ambientada a finales del siglo XIX que nos introduce a través de su protagonista en la profunda transformación que...
