The second 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.A lady strays from a garden path and enters a different realm. A king wages dynastic war for control of three kingdoms. As villains plot to take control of an alternate world inhabited by the souls of the dead, a mysterious, magical woman seeks her destiny, igniting a splendid pageantry of battles and quests, poisonous love and triumphant passion, doomed loyalties and unsurpassed courage.And while Edward Lessingham engages in an earthly romance in twentieth-century England, seduction in Zimiamvia takes place over the most lavish of banquets…
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James Francis Stephens. A Fish Dinner in Memison
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Dedication
INTRODUCTION. BY JAMES STEPHENS
A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. TO GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON
PRINCIPAL PERSONS
I. APHRODITE IN VERONA
II. MEMISON: KING MEZENTIUS
III. A MATCH AND SOME LOOKERS ON
IV. LADY MARY SCARNSIDE
V. QUEEN OF HEARTS AND QUEEN OF SPADES
VI. CASTANETS BETWIXT THE WORLDS
VII. SEVEN AGAINST THE KING
VIII. LADY MARY LESSINGHAM
IX. NINFEA DI NEREZZA
X. THE LIEUTENANT OF REISMA
XI. NIGHT-PIECE: APPASSIONATO
XII. SALUTE TO MORNING
XIII. SHORT CIRCUIT
XIV. THE FISH DINNER: PRAELUDIUM
XV. THE FISH DINNER: SYMPOSIUM
XVI. THE FISH DINNER: CAVIAR
XVII. IN WHAT A SHADOW
XVIII. DEEP PIT OF DARKNESS
XIX. TEN YEARS: TEN MILLION YEARS: TEN MINUTES
NOTE
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Also by E. R. Eddison
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To my son-in-law
Flying Officer KENNETH HESKETH HIGSON
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‘Serene highness, I am a man of law, and should meddle no further than my commission. Yet is it the platform and understanding of all law that the King, just cause arising, may lawfully act without the law? You are our great pilot, on whom all we cast our eyes and seek our safety. For security of your person, it were good this Vicar were made away. This then is my counsel: assure yourself well of your forces, and, that done, strike: and at unawares.’
The King laughed in his great black beard. ‘You have confirmed my very resolve, and so shall it be. But with two provisoes. First, I’ll not, like an unskilful boor, kill my good hawk ’cause she turns haggard: I’ll tame my Horius Parry, not end him.’
