King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world of Mercury The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel which describes the protracted war between the domineering, The story begins with a dwarf ambassador from Witchland arriving in Demonland to demand that the chief lords of Demonland — the brothers Juss, Spitfire, and Goldry Bluszco, and their cousin Brandoch Daha — recognize King Gorice XI of Witchland as their overlord. Juss and his brothers reply that they and all of Demonland will submit if the king (a famous wrestler) can defeat Goldry Bluszco in a wrestling match. The match is held in the neutral territory of the Foliot Isles, and Gorice is killed. His successor (or reincarnation) Gorice XII is a sorcerer who banishes Goldry to an enchanted mountain prison, by means of a perilous sorcery requiring the help of the devious Goblin traitor Lord Gro. Juss and Brandoch Daha start an expedition to rescue Goldry Bluszco from his terrible prison which leads to a great war.

S P A W N A N D S P I T F I R E BOOK ONE SATAN'S SPAWN MC SERIES WHEN CASSIE COMES TO TROY, NEW YORK, LOOKING FOR HER BEST FRIEND PEACHES, SHE MEETS DEKE TORY AND HER WORLD IS NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME. HE IS FORMIDABLE, MAGNETIC AND NOT LIKE ANYONE, SHE EVER MET. DEKE IS PRESIDENT OF THE SATAN'S SPAWN MC AND WHILE HE LIVES BY A CERTAIN SET OF RULES, CASSIE GREW UP DIFFERENTLY. SHE GREW UP ON THE STREETS FROM THE AGE OF TEN AND THE ONLY RULE THERE, WAS THE RULE OF SURVIVAL. DEKE FINDS HIMSELF DRAWN TO THE SPITFIRE GIRL WHO APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE. CAN HE BREAK DOWN THE WALLS SHE HAS BUILT UP TO PROTECT HERSELF? WHEN CASSIE AND PEACHES ARE REUNITED, THEIR PAST COMES BACK TO HAUNT THEM. SOMEONE FROM THEIR PAST WANTS THEM DEAD TO HIDE A TERRIBLE SECRET. CAN DEKE PROTECT HER, CAN HE EVEN HOLD ON TO HER? THEY HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO SURVIVE AND CASSIE HAS TO FIND A WAY TO KEEP A PROMISE SHE MADE TO PEACHES WHEN THEY WERE TEN. SHE HAS TO FIND PEACHES' FAMILY AND REUNITE THEM. WILL THEY BOTH SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH OR WILL THEIR PAST SWALLOW THEM AND KEEP ITS SECRET FOR A LITTLE WHILE LONGER?

A fantastic and stylized story of a protracted war between domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an medieval world reminiscent of Norse sagas.

The English author E. R. Eddison wrote epic fantasy novels, including the seminal work ‘The Worm Ouroboros’ (1922) and the ‘Zimiamvian Trilogy’. His books are composed in a meticulous Jacobean prose style, supplemented throughout with poetic fragments from world classic literature, exhibiting an aristocratic sensibility. His high fantasy works drew strong praise from J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. This eBook presents Eddison’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Eddison’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 5 novels, with individual contents tables * The complete Zimiamvian Books * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare Norse Books available in no other collection * Includes Eddison’s non-fiction, including the revealing memoir of his college friend and poet Philip Sidney Nairn * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Zimiamvia Books The Worm Ouroboros (1922) Mistress of Mistresses (1935) A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941) The Mezentian Gate (1958) The Norse Books Styrbiorn the Strong (1926) Egil’s Saga (1930) Other Works Poems, Letters, and Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn (1916) Profiteering (1922) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

The Worm Ouroboros is considered to be one of the foundational texts of the high fantasy genre, influencing later authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Leguin, and James Branch Cabell. It is most frequently compared to The Lord of the Rings in its epic scope set against a medieval, magic-laced backdrop—a world called “Middle Earth” by Eddison, thirty-two years before Tolkien’s—and in its almost mythical portrayal of larger-than-life heroes and villains. The plot begins simply enough: The Lords of Demonland, a group of heroic warriors enjoying a strained peace, are called upon by an emissary of the warlock king of Witchland, Gorice XI. The emissary demands that Demonland submit to the King of Witchland—but the proud Demons refuse, setting off an epic war that spans their entire world. The heroic struggles of the Demons and their allies against the Witches reflect the circular nature of human history: the snake eating its own tail of the title. The novel is written in a purposefully archaic, almost Jacobean style. The rich, surprising vocabulary and unusual spelling are testaments to Eddison’s expertise at reading and translating medieval-era texts. To this day, it remains perhaps unique in fantasy literature in the accuracy and precision of its highly affected prose style, perhaps matched only by the out-of-time strangeness of the prose in Hodgson’s The Night Land. But where critics often find The Night Land’s prose obtuse and difficult, they have nothing but praise for Eddison’s beautiful, quotable style. Eddison had already imagined the story and its heroes as a child, and drawings he made as a youth of events in the book are preserved in the Bodleian library. While the novel is without a doubt the work of a mature and skilled writer, and while some of the events and characters are portrayed differently in the novel than they were in his youthful sketches, the names of many of the characters and places remain unchanged. Some of his contemporaries, like Tolkien, wondered about the strange naming style; others criticized it as taking away from the more serious subject matter. The Worm Ouroboros remains one of the most influential works in the high fantasy genre to this day, and traces of the foundation it laid can be still be found in genre books a century after its publication. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.