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Virgil Burnett
Towers at the Edge of a World
New York 1980
Stron 208, format: 16x24 cm
24 autorskie ilustracje
Książka w bardzo dobrym stanie, plamka na środku obwoluty, lekko podniszczona obwoluta na grzbiecie.
"The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story." —Tennyson ,
The centuries have encrusted the hill town of Montarnis with layers of buttress and bastion; its tangle of spires and tow-, ers speak of another world, an .ancient .and distant order. Seasons and battles have steadily eroded them, worn away the colors with which they once were decorated, threatened to reduce the limestone walls themselves to chalk. Yet Montarnis has withstood dragons and plagues, invasions and sorcery, and Virgil Burnett has brought its'history to life with dazzling skill. Bound together by rich eroticism, mys-' ticism, and wij, here are the strange and wonderful portraits of some of those who peopled the town through the centuries: Hugues, lord of the hunt, who dies a pilgrim in Jerusalem; Djaa, the Amazon from the Orient, who conquers the men , of the valley; Gerardus, copying the scriptures as his feMow monks succumb to the Black Death; the mad king, perhaps * Charles VI, imprisoned in his tower; and other tales of savage beasts, questing historians, and lustful ladies. "The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story." —Tennyson ,
The centuries have encrusted the hill town of Montarnis with layers of buttress and bastion; its tangle of spires and tow-, ers speak of another world, an .ancient .and distant order. Seasons and battles have steadily eroded them, worn away the colors with which they once were decorated, threatened to reduce the limestone walls themselves to chalk. Yet Montarnis has withstood dragons and plagues, invasions and sorcery, and Virgil Burnett has brought its'history to life with dazzling skill. Bound together by rich eroticism, mys-' ticism, and wij, here are the strange and wonderful portraits of some of those who peopled the town through the centuries: Hugues, lord of the hunt, who dies a pilgrim in Jerusalem; Djaa, the Amazon from the Orient, who conquers the men , of the valley; Gerardus, copying the scriptures as his feMow monks succumb to the Black Death; the mad king, perhaps * Charles VI, imprisoned in his tower; and other tales of savage beasts, questing historians, and lustful ladies.
Introduction: Montarnis 1 1. gundegar 7 2. Hugues 13 3. Aleth 25 4. Gerardus 29 5. Constance 47 6. King Folly 67 7. Queen Death 79 8. Isabeau 83 9. DjAA 89 10. Xavier 121 11. Violette 129 12. Fausta 141 13. Rhys 167 14. Julie 177 15. Malliardus 191
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