(My old review, reposted from blog at https://mikemonaco.wordpress.com/2011...)Lately I’ve been trying to read as much ‘classic’ fantasy as I can. My main criteria for counting a work as a classic has been (1) the work or author is prominent in Gygax’s Appendix N [http://www.digital-eel.com/blog...
Like The Worm Ouroboros _Mistress of Mistresses_ is a book that only E. R. Eddison could have written and is one that is likely to garner an even smaller following than the admittedly obscure Worm. For my part I think that this book, and its subsequent sequels that make up the Zimiamvian Trilogy,...
Originally published on my blog here in June 2002.The second of Eddison's Zimianvian trilogy is the most difficult of his novels to read, though it is well worth the effort. It has much more to do with the aims of his writing than Mistress of Mistresses, where the hinds about what is being done c...
Demon, killer and drunkard, poet, lawyer and farmer: Egil is the most individual and paradoxical character to emerge from the Icelandic Sagas.From the time when Egil performs his first murder at the age of six to the more peaceful years of his dotage, he dominates this panoramic Viking history. U...
