The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A war between the lords of Demonland and Witchland, fought on a Mercury that has nothing to do with astronomy, in prose modelled on the Jacobeans. Eddison was a civil servant who wrote it for himself; Tolkien admired it and disagreed with its ethics, and it remains the strangest of the great fantasies - the ending is a circle. Sixty plates from Benjamin Haughton and Daniel Maclise and their contemporaries, ranging from slain dragons and woodland scenes to tournaments and halls of feasting, give this romance of Demonland and Witchland its proper heraldic weather.
A war between the lords of Demonland and Witchland, fought on a Mercury that has nothing to do with astronomy, in prose modelled on the Jacobeans. Eddison was a civil servant who wrote it for himself; Tolkien admired it and disagreed with its ethics, and it remains the strangest of the great fant...
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E. R. Eddison (1882-1945) was an English civil servant and author born in Adel, Yorkshire. He worked at the Board of Trade, was made a Companion of the Bath, and wrote heroic romances in a deliberately archaic English. His works include The Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses, A Fish Dinner in Memison, and a translation of Egil's Saga.
E. R. Eddison (1882-1945) was an English civil servant and author born in Adel, Yorkshire. He worked at the Board of Trade, was made a Companion of the Bath, and wrote heroic romances in a deliberately archaic English. His works include The Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses, A Fish Dinner in...
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