Moorcock, Michael Elric of Melnibone ISBN 13: 9780099077909

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FANTASY-MELNIBONE NO LONGER THE MIGHTY EMPIRE THAT ONCE DOMINATED THE WORLD BUT A WANING KINGDOM,DEPENDANT ON TRADE FROM THE HUMAN NATIONS WHICH HAVE CHALLENGED HER POWER.ON HER RUBY THRONE SITS THE ALBINO ELRIC-SORCERER AND WARRIOR.A MELANCHOLY PHILOSOPHER AT ODDS WITH HIS DESTINY.AS FLEETS OF MARAUDERS PROBE THE DEFENCES OF THE DRAGON ISLE,ELRIC FACES TREACHERY WITHIN IN HIS OWN COURT-FROM YRKOON,THE CRUEL AND AMBITIOUS COUSIN WHO DREAMS OF USURPING HIM.

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Elric, Moorcock's damned albino swordsman, is one of the most striking creations of heroic fantasy. Living in a world doomed to be forgotten, last emperor of the decaying empire he betrays, he is a striking figure of teenage angst who becomes something rather more. He is the central figure of a world conceived largely for its gloomy decorativeness--Moorcock's fantasy landscapes derive as much from the author's favourite Romantic and Mannerist pictures as they do from the traditions of a genre for which he had mixed feelings early in his career. Elric is doomed to sacrifice friends and lovers, as well as those enemies he wishes to spare, to the great black sword from which he derives not merely prowess but the capacity to be other than a neurasthenic invalid in these early stories. He also finds his wife Zarozinia and his friend Moonglum only to lose them, and fails heroically to save the world from the melting encroachments of the lords of Chaos. There is a dark power to these stories which belies their occasional absurdities and haunts the reader's dreams and nightmares.--Roz Kaveney
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Riveting tales from the world of Elric of Melnibone.

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  • PublisherLegend
  • Publication date1979
  • ISBN 10 0099077906
  • ISBN 13 9780099077909
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages192
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