e r eddison

A review by Theodore Sturgeon, probably in a magazine rather than a fanzine, of Eddison’s classic fantasy put a veteran reader onto the book. The review appeared in the 1950s or maybe very early 1960s, but definitely years before Ballantine’s late-1960s reprint. The review might have been of...

Which of the two? J R R Tolkien The man who gave us The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings , Farmer Giles and Ham , The Silmarillion and other assorted tales Or E R Eddison the man who gave us The Worm...

I read The Worm Ouroboros by this author quite some time ago, and it's brilliant IMHO; comparable to Tolkein albeit different in style. And it's in the public domain and quite easy to get hold of (legally!) in electronic form. However, the rest of his works, which mostly consist of the...

This trilogy contains the following books: 1) Mistress of Mistresses 2) A Fish Dinner in Memison 3) The Mezentian Gate I've read the first one and have just picked up the last and wondered whether they need/should be read in order? How tightly interconnected are they?

E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros and his Zimiamvia Trilogy (Mistress of Mistresses, A Fish Dinner in Memison, The Mezentian Gate) have remained in print pretty much consistently, I believe, since their 1960s revival by New York's Ballantine Books, where they were among a dozen or so precursors...

I recently finished this book by E.R. Eddison and I must say that it left me a trifle confused. I have previously read and thoroughly enjoyed the Worm of Ouroboros and was looking for something else by him. I noticed that the Mistress of Mistresses was also re-released in the Fantasy...

The Worm Ouroboros is not an easy book to love. The language is archaic ("resembling nothing written since the seventeenth century," as Orville Prescott says in his introduction to the Ballentine edition), the descriptions dense and ornate, the plot rambling, the action frequently slow, and the...

Tolkien claimed to have read every work of this author and many see significant influence by Edison's writing in the Lord of the Rings. This book was written back in the 20's, I think. It's extremely hard to find: Half.com, amazon.com, abebooks.com, and lots of libraries. I have heard great...