The Worm Ouroboros [E.R. Eddison]

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The Worm Ouroborus

E.R. Eddison

Ballantine Adult Fantasy, NY. 1967. First Ballantine Adult Fantasy edition. Some slight edgewear, wrinkling to spine, and uniform yellowing, otherwise a beautiful copy. Excellent.

From the publisher:

"This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this 1922 landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story of a remote planet's great war between two kingdoms, it ranks as the Iliad of heroic fantasy.
In the best traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and Arthurian myths, author E. R. Eddison weaves a compelling adventure, with a majestic, Shakespearean narrative style. His sweeping tale recounts battles between warriors and witches on fog-shrouded mountaintops and in the ocean's depths — along with romantic interludes, backroom intrigues, and episodes of direst treachery."

An absolute classic in it's greatest edition - the Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperback. Platonic ideal of fantasy.