"From whatever heaven Mr. Eddison comes, he has added a masterpiece to English literature.'—James Stephens
The author of this extraordinary and reverberating book has dared to be completely imaginative, to brush aside the world, create and order his own cosmqs, and with this background give us the death and transfiguration of a hero.
The scene is that fabled land of Zimiamvia (already mentioned in the previous volume, The Worm Ouroboros) of which philosophers tell us that no mortal foot may tread it, but that souls do inhabit it of the dead that were great upon earth...Here they forever live, love, do battle, and even for a space die again.
Lessingham—artist, poet, king of men, and lover of women—is dead. But from Aphrodite herself, Mistress of Mistresses, he has earned the promise both to live again in Zimiamvia and of her own perilous future favors.
This volume recounts the story of his first day in that strange Valhalla, where a lifetime is a day and where— among enemies, enchantments, guile, and triumph—that promise is fulfilled.
BY E. R. EDDISON
THE WORM OUROBOROS
A FISH DINNER IN MEMISON
MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES
A VISION OF ZIMIAMVIA BY
E. R. EDDISON
BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK