Mervyn Wall: 2 books
by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task is made easier by the fact that...
by Mervyn Wall, Michael Dirda
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Having escaped being burnt at the stake, the reluctant sorcerer Fursey is back in this sequel, trying to make a quiet life for himself as a grocer in the realm of King Ethelwulf. But when his old enemies seize his wife, Fursey resolves to embrace evil and return to Ireland to reclaim her. Along the...