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The English author E. R. Eddison wrote epic fantasy novels, including the seminal work ‘The Worm Ouroboros'(1922) and the ‘Zimiamvian Trilogy'. His books are composed in a meticulous Jacobean prose style, supplemented throughout with poetic fragments from world classic literature, exhibiting an aristocratic sensibility. His high fantasy works drew strong praise from J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. This eBook presents Eddison's complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and informative introductions. (Version 1) • Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Eddison's life and works• Concise introductions to the novels and other texts• All 5 novels, with individual contents tables• The complete Zimiamvian Books• Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts• Excellent formatting of the texts• Rare Norse Books available in no other collection• Includes Eddison's non-fiction, including the revealing memoir of his college friend and poet Philip Sidney Nairn• Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Zimiamvia BooksThe Worm Ouroboros (1922)Mistress of Mistresses (1935)A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)The Mezentian Gate (1958) The Norse BooksStyrbiorn the Strong (1926)Egil's Saga (1930) Other WorksPoems, Letters, and Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn (1916)Profiteering (1922) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

A Nebula Award winner presents tales that shaped modern science fiction and fantasy—five complete novels by Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, and more. In this handpicked collection, New York Times–bestselling author Greg Bear travels back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when novelists let their imaginations soar beyond conventional boundaries of time and space and contributed to the emergence of imaginative new literary genres. In 1889, Mark Twain introduced Americans to time travel in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, in which a hard-headed New Englander is sent back through history to the age of chivalry. Six years later, H. G. Wells propelled an intrepid inventor into the far future via The Time Machine; there, our fearless hero discovers a nightmarish evolutionary scenario in which technologically advanced but mutated Morlocks dwell underground, preying on the innocent aboveground Eloi. In 1912, long before Ray Bradbury or Star Wars, Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined the first wildly popular alternative fantasy/alien culture with A Princess of Mars, transporting readers from Arizona to the red planet, where Confederate soldier John Carter is swept up in another kind of civil war and seduced by a gorgeous red-hued princess. In 1920, Scottish novelist David Lindsay presented A Voyage to Arcturus, an interstellar quest for truth as well as an inquiry into the nature of good and evil that inspired generations of fantasy writers to come. And in 1922, E. R. Eddison turned the planet Mercury into a fantasy version of Earth where demons and witches wage war on a Homeric scale in The Worm Ouroboros. With an insightful introduction, Bear celebrates the writers who first swept readers away to other times and worlds—and blew their minds in ways that altered our literary landscape and collective imagination forever.

Demonland and Witchland wage war in this massively influential fantasy classic With the arrival of a Witchland envoy making demands of Demonland's chief lords, peace between the two lands is irrevocably shattered. The chief lords Juss and Spitfire send their brother Goldry to defeat the witch king. Though he is initially victorious, Goldry ultimately gets captured, leaving it up to his brothers to rescue him. So begins a fantasy adventure whose influence has endured for nearly a century. The Worm Ouroboros is an undisputed classic of fantasy literature, and has been an avowed influence on the likes of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Entirely immersive and written in near-Elizabethan tongue, the novel takes readers on an unforgettable ride across the plane of Mercury, flanked by soaring hippogriffs, with an unforgettable finish that impresses as much now as it did nearly a century ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Curl up with a classic mystery from the genre's golden era. Long overlooked by mass audiences, the work of Ernest Robertson Punshon has recently earned acclaim as being subtle and sophisticated, while still deliciously suspenseful and tightly plotted. The Bittermeads Mystery highlights Punshon at the peak of his literary powers.