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“mervyn wall”

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  • The Unfortunate Fursey

    by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda ...
    Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task is made easier by the fact that one hapless monk, the simple-minded Brother Fursey, cannot manage to pronounce the necessary words of exorcism ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Return of Fursey

    by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda ...
    Having escaped being burnt at the stake, the reluctant sorcerer Fursey is back in this sequel, trying to make a quiet life for himself as a grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf. But when his old enemies seize his wife, Fursey resolves to embrace evil and return to Ireland to reclaim her. Along the way, he’ll have to contend with bloodthirsty Vikings, a melancholy vampire, an alcoholic wizard, a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Suldrun's Garden

    by Jack Vance ...
    Take a doomed princess, a dispossessed prince and a wicked king, a vengeful magician and a melancholy witch; now add faeries, ogres, changelings, scheming barons, wanderers who are not what they seem, robbers, orphans, and a race of hardbitten warriors at war with all humanity. Stir in politics, intrigue, plots and assassinations, battles and sieges, then set it all to simmer in a mythical ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Compleat Traveller in Black

    by John Brunner ...
    One journey. Six stories. Mind-blowing fantasy from the Hugo Award winner, "one of the most important science fiction authors" (SF Site).In The Compleat Traveller in Black, six linked tales, comprising one of Brunner's rare ventures into fantasy, relate the legend of a man with many names, who travels the world with a staff made of light and performs his eternal duty by bringing order to a world ... Read more

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  • The Green Pearl

    by Jack Vance ...
    In the second volume of the Lyonesse trilogy, new threads are woven into the epic tapestry begun in Suldruns Garden. While war rages across the Elder Isles, King Aillass true love, Glyneth, is carried off to a parallel world by an amoral magician in the pay of the wicked King Casmir. Meanwhile, a sorceresss malice, condensed into a green pearl, passes from hand to hand bringing poignant misery to ... Read more

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  • Madouc

    by Jack Vance ...
    Wicked King Casmir cannot control Madouc, the wild and willful changeling secretly switched at birth with Prince Dhrun, rightful heir to the throne. So Casmir ordains a quest: whosoever brings him the Holy Grail will have Madouc for his bride. But the fairy-born princess chooses to decide her own fate, and sets out with a stable boy to find the grail herself. Meanwhile, a spiteful wizard seeks to ... Read more

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  • A Morbid Taste for Bones

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series Book 1 - The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
    The "irresistible" and "compelling" first novel in the historical mystery series featuring a Welsh Benedictine monk in the twelfth century ( The Washington Post ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorA Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England, Brother Cadfael spends much of his time tending the herbs and vegetables in the garden—but now there's a more ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Shadow & Claw

    The First Half of The Book of the New Sun

    by Gene Wolfe ...
    Series Book 1 - The Book of the New Sun
    The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly.Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on ... Read more

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  • The Confession of Brother Haluin

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series Book 15 - The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
    A monk's journey of amends leads to murder in this "thoroughly entertaining medieval mystery" in the Silver Dagger Award–winning series ( Publishers Weekly ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorWinter arrived early in 1142, bringing with it a heavy snowfall. The safety of the guest-hall roof at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul comes into jeopardy, and the brothers ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Pilgrim of Hate

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series Book 10 - The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
    A monk must find a killer among a flood of religious pilgrims in this medieval mystery by the Edgar Award–winning author: "A series like no other" ( The San Diego Union-Tribune ).CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorIn the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence—and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. And with gentle bud-strewn May, a flood ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • A Rare Benedictine

    The Advent of Brother Cadfael

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series series The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
    "Three classic stories featuring Brother Cadfael . . . whose powers of deduction are practically miraculous" in the Silver Dagger–winning medieval mystery series ( Booklist ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning Author"Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured." So writes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Complete Book of the New Sun

    The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun

    by Gene Wolfe ...
    Series series The Book of the New Sun
    This discounted Gene Wolfe ebundle includes: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun“Magic stuff...a masterpiece...the best science fiction I've read in years!” —Ursula K. Le GuinThe Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe’s most remarkable work, hailed as “a masterpiece of science ... Read more

    $31.18 USD