Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Corn King & the Spring Queen - The Distinguished Novel - cover

The Corn King & the Spring Queen - The Distinguished Novel

Naomi Mitchison

Publisher: The Overlook Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

A classic epic fantasy set in ancient civilizations along the Black Sea where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik’s power. But one night Tarrik rescues Sphaeros, a Hellenic philosopher, from a shipwreck. Sphaeros in turn rescues Tarrik from near death and so breaks the enchantment that has bound him. And so begins for Tarrik a Quest—a fabulous voyage of discovery which will bring him new knowledge, and which will reunite him with his beautiful Spring Queen.“This breathtaking recreation of life in the ancient world welds the power of myth and magic to a stirring plot.” —Ian Rankin “Originally published in 1931, this dense, epic-length fantasy is a quest story cunningly woven of history and myth. . . . In scenes of beauty and power, Mitchison breathes life into such perennial themes as courage, forgiveness, the search for meaning, and self-sacrifice.” —Publishers Weekly
Available since: 08/01/1990.
Print length: 720 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Namak Ka Daroga - cover

    Namak Ka Daroga

    Munshi Premchand

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Namak ka Daroga is the most famous short story written by legendary Hindi classical author Munshi Premchand. Narrated by Nidhi Bisht , this audiobook is a must listen for every Hindi literature lover.
    Show book
  • One Corpse Too Many - cover

    One Corpse Too Many

    Ellis Peters

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    When Shrewsbury Castle falls, Brother Cadfael discovers a murder mystery amidst the wreckageIn the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the Empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: one extra victim that has been strangled, not hanged.This ingenious way to dispose of a corpse tells Brother Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine. He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure, and a single broken flower … the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can expose a murderer's black heart.
    Show book
  • Pagan - A Novel - cover

    Pagan - A Novel

    W. F. Morris

    • 0
    • 1
    • 0 
    The horrors of World War I continue to haunt two veterans on holiday in 1930s France in this “stirring” novel (Books Monthly).   In the War to End All Wars, Charles Pagan and Dick Baron fought side by side and survived the slaughter. Over a decade later, they return to France not as soldiers but as tourists, taking a serene walking holiday through the Vosges Mountains.   But their idyll soon turns dark when they stay at a remote country guesthouse. The locals are secretive and frightened, breaking their silence only to warn the visitors against visiting an old battlefield nearby. Having seen many such fields under fire, Pagan and Baron consider such apprehensions nonsense—until one night when Pagan thinks he’s glimpsed an apparition on the moonlit battlefield . . .
    Show book
  • In the Avu Observatory (Unabridged) - cover

    In the Avu Observatory (Unabridged)

    H. G. Wells

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This early work by H. G. Wells was originally published in 1894. "In the Avu Observatory" is a short story of a man working in an observatory in Borneo who gets attacked by a strange bat-like creature.
    Show book
  • The Vampyre - cover

    The Vampyre

    John Polidori

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This is John Polidori's classic tale of gothic horror, The Vampyre.
    Show book
  • The Princess - cover

    The Princess

    D H Lawrence

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    'The Princess' of the story is a spoiled, sexless woman who is thrown in with a passionate man whom she takes into her bed and then rejects. This rejection leads to his ultimate death. Lawrence again pleads his case for the necessary domination of woman by man and shows the sterility of a life lead without sexual passion. Set against the bleak mountains of South America, it is one of Lawrence's most enduring tales.
    Show book