--- product_id: 402300404 title: "LUD-IN-THE-MIST Paperback – Import, 5 July 2018" brand: "hope mirrlees" price: "€ 21.87" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/402300404-lud-in-the-mist-paperback-import-5-july-2018 store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # LUD-IN-THE-MIST Paperback – Import, 5 July 2018 **Brand:** hope mirrlees **Price:** € 21.87 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** LUD-IN-THE-MIST Paperback – Import, 5 July 2018 by hope mirrlees - **How much does it cost?** € 21.87 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/402300404-lud-in-the-mist-paperback-import-5-july-2018) ## Best For - hope mirrlees enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted hope mirrlees brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![LUD-IN-THE-MIST Paperback – Import, 5 July 2018 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91cqIbbP8oL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A classic! *by T***K on Reviewed in Germany on 31 August 2017* This is by right a fine example of classical fantastic literature. It centers on the meeting of two worlds the one of the fae and the one the humans of Lud made for themselves. While the human civilization is based on logic and the order of society, the fae is based on laws and powers maybe impossible to comprehend, but much more in line with nature and what lies beyond.The blurring of the line between both worlds isn't without conflict or pain, but it leads to a memorable finale and the insight of the importance of balance. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful writing, interesting premise *by B***D on Reviewed in Australia on 8 September 2018* One aspect of the book which delighted me was the authors vocabulary- she used many archaic words and phrases which placed the action back in time, gave a flavour of the lost complexity of rural life. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant. *by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on 20 April 2010* I don't think I'm well-read enough to review this book -- as is the case with many British writers of that period, Mirrlees is far better classically educated than I am, and I'm sure I missed quite a few of her references. However, I now firmly agree with Neil Gaiman that this is "the single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century" so I felt I should attempt to review it here in the hopes that I get a few more people to seek it out.This is most distinctly not the sort of fantasy novel that would be able to get published today. Tolkien's Shire feels strongly influenced by Mirrlees' Lud, but it's not the Shire that so many fantasy writers and publishers have taken as their model, it's all that pesky questing and evil-battling. There are no epic quests in this novel, and there is definitely nothing as comforting as a black-and-white delineation of good and bad.Instead, Lud-in-the-Mist is somehow at the confluence of high fantasy rooted strongly rooted in folktale and a political thriller. It is written in a surprisingly straightforward, earthy style that nonetheless has plenty of room for some of the most beguiling and delightful descriptive passages I've ever read. It uses broad comedy side by side with the melancholy and the bittersweet. It can be read as a parable of class struggle, or as an endorsement of mind-altering drugs (keep in mind that it was published in 1926, so I highly doubt that this was what Mirrlees intended). It is most certainly about balancing the mundane and the miraculous (paraphrasing Gaiman's introduction), which perhaps explains how it came to be all these things at once.There are quite a few elements that turned people off (judging from the reviews I've seen online) but every single one of them worked for me: yes, the first third or so was highly episodic; yes, Nathaniel Chanticleer seems a bit of a bumbling fool at first, and isn't exactly likable; yes, it is very British, and quite old, so everyone reads white (though the women come off quite a bit better than in most of the fantasy written by men at the time) and as I mentioned above there are plenty of classical references. If your reading diet is entirely post-Tolkien fantasy, this novel will come as a bit of a shock to the senses. But if you actually enjoyed some of those classics they forced on you in school (things like  Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) , for instance, whether you read the satire or not) and want some fantasy with both a brain and a heart, this is absolutely the book for you. 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