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Kingdoms of Elfin

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Elfindom is an aristocratic society, jealous of its privileges. The ruling classes engage in such pursuits as patronizing the arts or hunting with the Royal Pack of Werewolves, while the lower orders take pleasure in conducting brutal raiding parties into the world to torment mortals.

The Kingdoms of Elfin are more diverse and widely scattered than is often thought; from the Welsh Elfins who, though constitutionally incapable of faith, remove mountains, and the elegant and witty French Court of Brocéliande where castration almost becomes a vogue, to the Kingdom of Zuy in the Low Countries, trafficking suppositories and religious pictures.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's richly exuberant imagination combined with the calm precision of her language conjures up a sublunary realm that is entirely convincing.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 222 pages

Publication:: 1978

Publisher:: Delacorte Press

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0385285248

ISBN13:: 9780385285247

kindle Asin:: B07H5XP47J

Kingdoms of Elfin

Sylvia Townsend Warner

3.95/5 (263 ratings)

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Elfindom is an aristocratic society, jealous of its privileges. The ruling classes engage in such pursuits as patronizing the arts or hunting with the Royal Pack of Werewolves, while the lower orders take pleasure in conducting brutal raiding parties into the world to torment mortals.

The Kingdoms of Elfin are more diverse and widely scattered than is often thought; from the Welsh Elfins who, though constitutionally incapable of faith, remove mountains, and the elegant and witty French Court of Brocéliande where castration almost becomes a vogue, to the Kingdom of Zuy in the Low Countries, trafficking suppositories and religious pictures.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's richly exuberant imagination combined with the calm precision of her language conjures up a sublunary realm that is entirely convincing.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 222 pages

Publication:: 1978

Publisher:: Delacorte Press

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0385285248

ISBN13:: 9780385285247

kindle Asin:: B07H5XP47J

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