Fiction · 1922
The Worm Ouroboros
A Romance
The Worm Ouroboros, first published in 1922, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- The Induction
- I — The Castle of Lord Juss
- II — The Wrastling for Demonland
- III — The Red Foliot
- IV — Conjuring in the Iron Tower
- V — King Gorice’s Sending
- VI — The Claws of Witchland
- VII — Guests of the King in Carcë
- VIII — The First Expedition to Impland
- IX — Salapanta Hills
- X — The Marchlands of the Moruna
- XI — The Burg of Eshgrar Ogo
- XII — Koshtra Pivrarcha
- XIII — Koshtra Belorn
- XIV — The Lake of Ravary
- XV — Queen Prezmyra
- XVI — The Lady Sriva’s Embassage
- XVII — The King Flies His Haggard
- XVIII — The Murther of Gallandus by Corsus
- XIX — Thremnir’s Heugh
- XX — King Corinius
- XXI — The Parley Before Krothering
- XXII — Aurwath and Switchwater
- XXIII — The Weird Begun of Ishnain Nemartra
- XXIV — A King in Krothering
- XXV — Lord Gro and the Lady Mevrian
- XXVI — The Battle of Krothering Side
- XXVII — The Second Expedition to Impland
- XXVIII — Zora Rach Nam Psarrion
- XXIX — The Fleet at Muelva
- XXX — Tidings of Melikaphkhaz
- XXXI — The Demons Before Carcë
- XXXII — The Latter End of All the Lords of Witchland
- XXXIII — Queen Sophonisba in Galing
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About the author
1882–1945 · Modern
Eric Rücker Eddison (1882–1945) was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, and spent his working life as a British civil servant at the Board of Trade (1906–1938), reaching senior rank and appointed CMG (1924) and CB (1929) for his public service. He wrote The Worm Ouroboros (1922), his first and best-known novel, followed by three more set in the world of Zimiamvia — Mistress of Mistresses (1935), A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941), and the unfinished The Mezentian Gate, published after his death in 1958. J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis both admired his invented prose style, though Tolkien found Eddison's underlying philosophy uncongenial.
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