Lud-in-the-Mist
Mirrlees, Hope
Fairy fruit is being smuggled into Dorimare.
Lud-in-the-Mist, the highly influential early fantasy novel you've never heard of, but praised by numerous authors throughout the years. Originally published in 1926. In its main character, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mirrlees prefigures Bilbo by a decade, in a setting not unlike Hobbiton. More recently the book's influence has been felt most strongly in works such as Neil Gaiman's Stardust and ...