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juushikaTitle: The King of Elfland's Daughter
Author: Lord Dunsany
Published: 1924
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 240
Total Page Count: 523,375
Text Number: 1903
Read Because: reviewed by The Fancy Hat Lady Reads!, ebook from Project Gutenberg
Review: The chief citizens of an obscure village petition their king to put them on the map by sending the prince to fairyland, there to win the hand of a fairy princess and bring magic to the world. In a word, magical—which of course is the point, but magic is hard to write, magic which feels truly more-than-mundane, truly other. And this manages, primarily by inhabiting liminal spaces, boundaries crossed, worlds intermixing: bringing the alien beauty of fairyland into the fields we know is as crucial as the journey the other way, the vivacity and changeability of the moral world a necessary counterpoint to the danger and still beauty of fairyland. The plot rambles, wandering that borderland as it follows its two and a half plot threads, but it's as accessible as any modern mythic fiction/mythpunk. Transporting, funny, beautiful; more about premise than characters, but with memorable characters. This is on my reread list, bookmarked for spring or autumn or even winter: it has an indulgent, evocative voice that lends well to any seasonal setting and evokes many.
Author: Lord Dunsany
Published: 1924
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 240
Total Page Count: 523,375
Text Number: 1903
Read Because: reviewed by The Fancy Hat Lady Reads!, ebook from Project Gutenberg
Review: The chief citizens of an obscure village petition their king to put them on the map by sending the prince to fairyland, there to win the hand of a fairy princess and bring magic to the world. In a word, magical—which of course is the point, but magic is hard to write, magic which feels truly more-than-mundane, truly other. And this manages, primarily by inhabiting liminal spaces, boundaries crossed, worlds intermixing: bringing the alien beauty of fairyland into the fields we know is as crucial as the journey the other way, the vivacity and changeability of the moral world a necessary counterpoint to the danger and still beauty of fairyland. The plot rambles, wandering that borderland as it follows its two and a half plot threads, but it's as accessible as any modern mythic fiction/mythpunk. Transporting, funny, beautiful; more about premise than characters, but with memorable characters. This is on my reread list, bookmarked for spring or autumn or even winter: it has an indulgent, evocative voice that lends well to any seasonal setting and evokes many.
