The Corn King and the Spring Queen
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Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the calm and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879513772
ISBN13:9780879513771
Release Date:August 1990
Publisher:Overlook Press
Length:720 Pages
Weight:1.96 lbs.
Dimensions:1.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"
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A magical book which is as brutal as it is dreamy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Naomi Mitchison¹s masterful recreation of ancient Scythia must surely stand as one of the most enduring historical novels of the century. In clear, pristine prose (which reminds me of Ursula LeGuin), Mitchison describes the mystical, sometimes horrible, world of her protagonist Erif Der (Red fire backwards). I first stumbled across this long novel in 1988 while at university. Rereading it last year was a sheer pleasure. The old-fashioned, very British, tone of the writing is not in the slightest bit off-putting. Here is a remarkable writer at the height of her powers. Like Ursula LeGuin, again, Mitchison has the uncanny ability to transport her readers to alien cutures and to make these foreign worlds, and the people who live there, as relevant as they are mesmerising. If you haven¹t experienced Naomi Mitchison before, then I can¹t think of a better place to start than with The Corn King and the Spring Queen.
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