Elric Of Melnibone (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) - Softcover

Moorcock, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857987438 ISBN 13: 9781857987430

Publisher: Gollancz, 2001

Synopsis

Elric of Melniboné is the haunted, treacherous and doomed albino sorcerer-prince. An introspective weakling in thrall to his black-bladed, soul-eating sword, Stormbringer, he is yet a hero whose bloody adventures and wanderings through brooding, desolate lands leads inexorably to his decisive intervention in the war between the forces of Law and Chaos. This volume brings together The Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer, the first two published books of Elric¿s adventures, and confirms Michael Moorcock¿s place as one of the most important fantasy writers of our time.

About this title

Review:

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

Book Description:

Elric of Melniboné is one of the truly great creations of modern fantasy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1857987438
• ISBN 13: 9781857987430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432