Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl and Madouc (Fantasy Masterworks) (Bk. 2)

Product Description In Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl and Madouc the magical lands of high enchantment - the Elder Isles, the land, long-vanished beneath the ocean, from which King Arthur's ancestors fled to Britain - come to brilliant life again. In this ancient land the realm of chivalry and the world of faerie exist side by side and it is a place of strange beauty, high adventure and eerie magic. Warring kings renew their conflicts, opposing magicians devise ever more strange and sinister stratagems and Madouc, ostensibly the daughter of the ill-fated Princess Suldrun but in reality a changeling, becomes embroiled in political rivalries, military adventures - and the quest for the Grail. About the Author Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many books are The Dragon Master, for which he won his first Hugo, Big Planet, The Anome and the Lyoness sequence. Fantasy,Masterwork,Fiction,Fantasy Fiction,General The final two books in the Lyonesse trilogy are contained in this single volume. Book 2, The Green Pearl, continues the saga of Aillas in his struggles against the powerful and ruthless King Casmir, while Glyneth is transported to a fantastic and dangerous dimension. Throughout the book, the baleful influence of a malevolent green pearl impinges on everyone who encounters it. Book 3, Madouc, is largely concerned with the tale of Princess Madouc as she finds herself in danger by going against King Casmir's wishes. The trilogy comes to an epic conclusion, as Aillas and Casmir clash for the final time, and the magician Murgen is challenged to his utmost ability 'Vance's incomparable fantasy trilogy...Dazzingly imaginative, fascinatingly intricate, delicately controlled, engagingly peopled, and set forth in the inimitable Vance prose style. Fantasy at its brilliant best' Kirkus Review