- Paperback: 719 pages
- Publisher: Soho Press; Reissue edition (July 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0939149990
- ISBN-13: 978-0939149995
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 3.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 767 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,209,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A novel ahead of its time (1931) in many ways due to its quiet feminism and its insistence that women could have fun, and quest-plots, as well as men, this was acclaimed as one of the most important books of the year it was published. Mythical and historical at once, the story follows Erif Der in her journeys through the world of her time as she searches for atonement, reconciliation and cleansing. Lyrical descriptive writing, lucid treatments of politics and war and intensely intimate observation of the needs and deeds of human beings fill this book, which manages to be earthy and transcendent at once.
From Publishers Weekly
This lurid tale of romance and conspiracy involving the dynasties of third-century Egypt and Greece was first published in 1931.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A magical book which is as brutal as it is dreamy,
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This review is from: The Corn King and the Spring Queen (Paperback)
Naomi Mitchisonıs masterful recreation of ancient Scythia must surely stand as one of the most enduring historical novels of the century. In clear, pristine prose (which reminds me of Ursula LeGuin), Mitchison describes the mystical, sometimes horrible, world of her protagonist Erif Der (Red fire backwards). I first stumbled across this long novel in 1988 while at university. Rereading it last year was a sheer pleasure. The old-fashioned, very British, tone of the writing is not in the slightest bit off-putting. Here is a remarkable writer at the height of her powers. Like Ursula LeGuin, again, Mitchison has the uncanny ability to transport her readers to alien cutures and to make these foreign worlds, and the people who live there, as relevant as they are mesmerising. If you havenıt experienced Naomi Mitchison before, then I canıt think of a better place to start than with The Corn King and the Spring Queen.
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A magical book which is as brutal as it is dreamy,
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This review is from: The Corn King and the Spring Queen (Paperback)
Naomi Mitchisonıs masterful recreation of ancient Scythia must surely stand as one of the most enduring historical novels of the century. In clear, pristine prose (which reminds me of Ursula LeGuin), Mitchison describes the mystical, sometimes horrible, world of her protagonist Erif Der (Red fire backwards). I first stumbled across this long novel in 1988 while at university. Rereading it last year was a sheer pleasure. The old-fashioned, very British, tone of the writing is not in the slightest bit off-putting. Here is a remarkable writer at the height of her powers. Like Ursula LeGuin, again, Mitchison has the uncanny ability to transport her readers to alien cutures and to make these foreign worlds, and the people who live there, as relevant as they are mesmerising. If you havenıt experienced Naomi Mitchison before, then I canıt think of a better place to start than with The Corn King and the Spring Queen.
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