Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978)
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Verk av Hope Mirrlees
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A Fly in Amber, Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1962) 10 exemplar
Poems 1 exemplar
Moods and tensions : poems 1 exemplar
Moods and tensions : seventeen poems 1 exemplar
Lud 1 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Mirrlees, Helen Hope
- Födelsedag
- 1887-04-08
- Avled
- 1978-08-01
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- Erpingham, Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
- Dödsort
- Thames Bank, Goring on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Scotland, UK
South Africa - Utbildning
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
École des Langues Orientales, Paris (Russian) - Yrken
- poet
translator
writer
scholar
classicist
biographer - Relationer
- Harrison, Jane Ellen (friend)
- Kort biografi
- Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet and novelist. Her circle of friends included Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Bertrand Russell, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She's best known for Lud-in-the-Mist, a 1926 fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem, an influential modernist volume published in 1918 by the Hogarth Press.
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Diskussioner
Chat about... Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees i The SF&F Book Chat (februari 2013)
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- Verk
- 13
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 2,083
- Popularitet
- #12,336
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 64
- ISBN
- 44
- Språk
- 6
- Favoritmärkt
- 8
That said, the central mystery plot didn't really work for me - I found it difficult to get invested in the story and wanted a bit more fantasy on the page. Mirrlees was writing before the fantasy genre was a thing and probably thought of herself as writing surrealistic literary fiction, so fellow fantasy readers might be surprised by the shape of the narrative.
The idea of the law as a fantastical fiction is one of the best ideas I've encountered in any novel, fantasy or otherwise.… (mer)