There had, however, been no intercourse between the two countries for many centuries. Nor was this to be wondered at, perhaps for beyond the Debatable Hills (the boundary of Dorimare in the west) lay Fairyland. Indeed, towards the west, in striking contrast with the pastoral sobriety of the central plain, the aspect of the country became, if not tropical, at any rate distinctly exotic. The Free State of Dorimare was a very small country, but, seeing that it was bounded on the south by the sea and on the north and east by mountains, while its centre consisted of a rich plain, watered by two rivers, a considerable variety of scenery and vegetation was to be found within its borders.
| CHAPTER 1 MASTER NATHANIEL CHANTICLEER "Hope Mirrlees' writing, usually underrated, moves between gently crazy humour, poetic snatches, real menace, and real poignancy."-The Encyclopedia of Fantasy Read more Under her own name, she published three novels: Madeleine- One of Life's Jansenists (1921) The Counterplot (1924) and her 1926 classic fantasy Lud-in-the-Mist, which has acknowledged inspiration to the likes of Neil Gaiman, Mary Gentle, Elizabeth Hand, Johanna Russ, and Tim Powers."-SF Site Eliot, André Gide, Katharine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats. Mirrlees was a close friend of such literary lights as Walter de la Mare, T.S.
"Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. Hope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist-a classic fantasy, and her only fantasy novel-in 1926. a little golden miracle of a book." -Neal Gaiman "The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century.
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