Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Eric Rücker Eddisonwich are The Worm and Mistress of Mistresses.
Eddison’s books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often directly copied from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse sagas and French medieval lyric poems. Critic Andy Sawyer has noted that such fragments seem to arise naturally from the ’barbarically sophisticated’ worlds Eddison has created.
Novels selected for this book:
– The Worm.
– Mistress of Mistresses.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Om författaren
Eric Rücker Eddison, (24 November 1882 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison.