Lyonesse - unfettable award-winning fantasy by Jack Vance (plete trilogy chapterised) torrent download






Reader review from Amazon.com :





“Stunning. Spellbinding. Excellent.





A friend gave me this book 20 years ago, in 1984. And I never read it. It moved with me from house to house along with a big pile of other unread books. Every once in a while I would give it a glance; but the back-cover copy was not all that interesting, and the map in the front looks crudely hand-drawn, and the first couple paragraphs seemed kind of dry -- whatever, I made no progress, tossed it back on a shelf. I had other stuff to read. 





This year I started to pay attention to fantasy again, what with the release of Stephen Donaldson's new Covenant series and my cousin recommending the Philip Pullman trilogy to me. Over the summer I pulled this book from the basement and added it to the to-read stack. Last week I read an old essay from Samuel R Delany saying how wonderful Vance is: ok, I'll give this book another try. 





After a couple days to get into it, the book just consumed me, and I burned thru the last 375+ pages in one sitting, staying up all night (til 7am! and I work in the mornings!) to finish it. 





Wow. What a book! 





Vance takes his time setting everything up just so; but when the match touches the tinder this book just starts roaring. An amazingly detailed and dramatic plot with dizzying twists and turns. Some of the most richly detailed characters I've ever encountered; believable yet surprising. Written with a very sure, controlled (even dry) prose. This is definitely a work for grown-ups: very mature, hard-edged at times. Yet light and funny at other times; and warm. This author really knows what he's doing. Rewarding. 





Why wouldn't I even give this book a decent chance before? Well -- maybe I was too young before. The presentation of the 1984 paperback didn't give any indication to a teenage boy that he might like the book. The cover illustration is of the Princess Suldrun; the back cover copy says something about the princess being locked up in her garden, until one day a prince washes up on shore -- I guess I thought it sounded like a romance novel. Instead it turned out to be one of the most compulsive page-turning high adventure novels I've ever read. 





Note again that this is not a book for kids. Vance's Lyonesse is a tough, dangerous world: ogres raping women, killing and eating children; fathers imprisoning daughters for disobedience; prisoners of war enslaved, and so forth. Very tough-minded. Parents looking for Johnny's next fantasy series after Harry Potter should look elsewhere. Johnny needs a different book; the parents should read this themselves.”








Lyonesse I 	Suldrun’s Garden  16½hrs





The Elder Isles, located in what is now the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Old Gaul, are made up of ten contending kingdoms, all vying with each other for control. At the centre of much of the intrigue is Casmir, the ruthless and ambitious king of Lyonesse. His beautiful but otherworldly daughter, Suldrun, is part of his plans. He intends to cement an alliance or two by marrying her well. But Suldrun is as determined as he, and defies him. Casmir coldly confines her to the overgrown garden that she loves to frequent, and it is here that she meets her love and her tragedy unfolds. Political intrigue, magic, war, adventure and romance are interwoven in a rich and sweeping tale set in a brilliantly realised fabled land.








Lyonesse II	The Green Pearl  13¼hrs





King Aillas of Troicinet defends the peace of the Elder Isles against both wicked King Casmir and the Ska marauders who once enslaved him. While organising the unruly barons in the frontiers of his land, Aillas goes out of his way to capture the lovely Ska noblewoman who once stung him with her disregard. When he gets separated from his men, his dream of forcing the lady's recognition becomes the toil of dragging a defiant captive across lands governed by Casmir's henchmen. Meanwhile, the world of magic has gone on the move. The concentrated malice of the witch Desmëi has manifested as a green pearl, breeding lust and envy and death; and a sorcerer in Casmir's employ abducts the princess Glyneth, in a bid to draw Aillas and friends on a hopeless rescue mission across a bizarre and deadly alternate world. A masterpiece of romantic, picaresque adventure.








Lyonesse III	Madouc  14½hrs





The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with mischief. Vexed, King Casmir and Queen Sollace arrange a contest to marry her off. However, Madouc has other ideas, and leaves with the stableboy "Sir Pom-pom" on a quest to learn the identity of her father, encountering swindlers, faeries, trolls, ogres, a knight in search of his youth, and a relatively pedestrian item known as the Holy Grail. As the sorcerers Shimrod and Murgen investigate dire portents in the world of magic, Casmir schemes to murder prince Dhrun of Troicinet and bring all the lands under his iron rule; however, his ambitions will be complicated by one small but important oversight -- he's failed to allow for Madouc!





Unabridged narration by Suzanne Toren
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