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Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl and Madouc: Green Pearl and Madouc Bk. 2 (Fantasy Masterworks) (Paperback)

by Jack Vance (Author) "Visbhume, apprentice to the recently dead Hippolito, applied to the sorcerer Tamurello for similar post, but was denied ..." (more)

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Paperback: 784 pages
Publisher: Gollancz (13 Feb 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0575075171
ISBN-13: 978-0575075177
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 5.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 452,452 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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In Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl and Madouc the magical lands of high enchantment - the Elder Isles, the land, long-vanished beneath the ocean, from which King Arthur's ancestors fled to Britain - come to brilliant life again. In this ancient land the realm of chivalry and the world of faerie exist side by side and it is a place of strange beauty, high adventure and eerie magic. Warring kings renew their conflicts, opposing magicians devise ever more strange and sinister stratagems and Madouc, ostensibly the daughter of the ill-fated Princess Suldrun but in reality a changeling, becomes embroiled in political rivalries, military adventures - and the quest for the Grail.

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Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many books are The Dragon Master, for which he won his first Hugo, Big Planet, The Anome and the Lyoness sequence.

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4.0 out of 5 stars More adventures of Ailas, Shimrod, et al, 25 Feb 2003

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In typical Vance fashion we are rapidly plunged into a spiderweb of stories about the characters we met in Suldrun's Garden. A ludicrous amount of plot is packed into a few hundred pages along with loads of great jokes, pithy asides, apparently unrelated anecdotes that may or may not resolve themselves into the main story, and predictable and surprising denouments.

This entire trilogy is amongst Vance's strongest work, and therefore amongst the finest fantasy ever written. Plenty of marvellous bitter-sweet romance too between Ailas and his erstwhile owner Tatzel. It is one of those books where years after reading it I was still recalling incidents with a wry grin. Re-reading it recently it had lost none of its shine.

I imagine that unlike Suldrun's Garden this book wouldn't make sense on its own, Read Suldrun's Garden first, and Madouc afterwards. You are in for a treat.

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