Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
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Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
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I love Mirrlees's radiant, shameless prose style. She's never afraid of too much lushness, too much anything--she just tells this story as it needs to be told.
I tracked this book down after I heard Jo Walton (whose books are also glorious) describe Susanna Clarke's _Jonathan_Strange_and_Mr._Norrell_ as the fantasy genre as it might have been had it descended mainly from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels and Hope Mirrlees's _Lud-in-the-Mist_. I loved Clarke's book, and so rushed out to get Mirrlees. The edition I found has a foreword by Neil Gaiman, in which he says (quite rightly) that _Lud_ is a classic.
I was so delighted with this book that I assigned it to my students at the earliest opportunity. It's a real vocabulary workout for American junior high students, and it's a challenging enough book to elicit good, thoughtful student papers, while being so inviting in tone and intriguing in its imagery as to keep kids hooked.
