Swords And Deviltry
de Leiber, Fritz
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0441791794
- ISBN 13
- 9780441791798
- Librería
-
Binghamton, New York, United States
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Sinopsis
Ramsey Campbell, one of England's most highly regarded British horror authors, called Fritz Leiber "the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction."Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that describes the sub-genre he helped create. Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon's grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber's fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization's corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery.Swords and Deviltry, the first book of Leiber's landmark series, introduces us to a strange world where our two strangers find the familiar in themselves and discover the icy power of female magic. Three master-magician femme-fatales and a sprightly lad illuminate the bonds between father and son, the relationship between the bravado of the imagination, and the courage of fools.A hedge wizard explains the cold war between the sexes.Mouse and Fafhrd meet again and learn the truth of how Mouse became the Gray Mouser. Together they traverse the smoke and mirrors of Lankhmar learning more and more of the foggy world in which they live, mapping the sinister silent symptoms of the never-ending night-smog. They follow the night-smog's relation to the region's longing for larceny and the hazy opiate of vanity. Last but certainly not least, they experience the pleasures and pains of the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokers that will lead them to countless more adventures and misadventures.
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- Librería
- Robinson Street Books, IOBA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- GRAYPB33KR2632
- Título
- Swords And Deviltry
- Autor
- Leiber, Fritz
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0441791794
- ISBN 13
- 9780441791798
- Editorial
- Ace
- Lugar de publicación
- Us
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983-06-15
- X weight
- 5 oz
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