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Hazel, Paul: The Wealdwife's Tale. 26532
AvoNova/Morrow: NY. 1993.
First edition (& 1st printing).
''The Wealdwife's Tale (1993) is once again understandable as a meditation on the wheel of life, here in the guise of a fantasia very loosely based on the Christmas carol ''Good King Wenceslas''. Waldo Wenceslas is not a king but a duke, a scholarly, vague, haunted Knight Of The Doleful Countenance; and his tiny fiefdom is impinged upon both by a mundane landscape which closely resembles Colonial New England and by a deathly mirror fiefdom which seems reachable only by members of the Wenceslas family, each of whom acts in strict accordance with a pattern or story laid down generations earlier. Obsessed by the death of his wife Elva decades earlier, Wenceslas goes literally into the woods in search of her, but does not recognize the old woman he meets as Elva. She brings him to a young girl, Alve, and accompanies them back to the fiefdom, where they prepare to marry. Wenceslas's three sons then go into the woods, there dying and being reborn as a ''brollachan'' - a tripartite hedge, a cruel embodiment of the greenwood in the guise of a grotesque parody of the Green Man. His daughter, too, vanishes into the woods, and is rescued by young Odlaw (Waldo reversed) from the other side, who weds her. Tragedies ensue. Both Finnbranch(his earlier novels) and The Wealdwife's Tale operate at a level of originality rarely found in fantasy. [John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
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10.00 GBP
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Hazel, Paul: Undersea: Volume 11 Of The Finnbranch. 23173
Atlantic Monthly: Boston. 1982.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Sequel to YEARWOOD (1980) and followed by WINTERKING (1985).
''US writer and teacher whose Finnbranch sequence, Yearwood (1980), Undersea (1982) and Winterking (1985), presents again and again, in cyclical form, versions of the birth, heroic adulthood and death of a hero named Finn. Though much of the imagery accompanying and intensifying the reiterations of Finn's life-course derives from Celtic fantasy, and inevitably relates to the Finn MacCool cycle, the sequence is in no clear sense obedient to any single underlying Northern story, Celtic or Arthurian, though elements from these and other cycles appear throughout. The language throughout is strikingly intense, allusive, dislocatingly dreamlike, vivid'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) bur for several tiny nicks along the edges.
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Hazel, Paul: Yearwood (and) Undersea (and) Winterking: The Finnbranch Trilogy. 03700
Atlantic Monthly Press: NY. 1980-85.
First editions.
Hardcovers.
Three volumes.
''whose Finnbranch sequence presents again and again, in cyclical form, versions of the birth, heroic adulthood and death of a hero named Finn. Though much of the imagery accompanying and intensifying the reiterations of Finn's life-course derives from Celtic fantasy, and inevitably relates to the Fin MacCool cycle, the sequence is in no clear sense obedient to any single underlying Northernstory, Celtic or Arthurian or Teutonic, though elements from these and other cycles appear throughout. Over the course of the first two volumes, which are both set in otherworld-tinged Celtic landscapes, Finn undergoes several of the metamorphoses typical of Celtic fantasy at its most unrelenting. In the third volume, told in the guise of an alternate world tale set in a displaced 20th-century USA, Finn surfaces into a more socialized world but remains tied to the wheel of the central story that arguably generates heroic cycles: the threshhold-crossing wheel of life that turns birth into triumph into death and (in some traditions) into birth again. The language throughout is strikingly intense, allusive, dislocatingly dreamlike, vivid.. The Finnbranch series operates at a level of originality rarely found in fantasy'' (John Clute/ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY).
First two volumes are fine in fine dustjacket (as new), the third is fine in VG+ dustjacket with shallow chipping to top spine edge.
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Hazel, Paul: Yearwood. 08918
Atlantic Monthly Press: NY. 1980.
First edition (& 1st printing).
First book in the Finnbranch trilogy, followed by UNDERSEA (1982) and WINTERKING (1985).
''US writer and teacher whose Finnbranch sequence, Yearwood (1980), Undersea (1982) and Winterking (1985), presents again and again, in cyclical form, versions of the birth, heroic adulthood and death of a hero named Finn. Though much of the imagery accompanying and intensifying the reiterations of Finn's life-course derives from Celtic fantasy, and inevitably relates to the Finn MacCool cycle, the sequence is in no clear sense obedient to any single underlying Northern story, Celtic or Arthurian, though elements from these and other cycles appear throughout. The language throughout is strikingly intense, allusive, dislocatingly dreamlike, vivid'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket.
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Hazel, Paul: Yearwood. 10189
Atlantic Monthly Press: NY. 1980.
First edition (& 1st printing).
First book in the Finnbranch trilogy, followed by Undersea and Winterking. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
''US writer and teacher whose Finnbranch sequence, Yearwood (1980), Undersea (1982) and Winterking (1985), presents again and again, in cyclical form, versions of the birth, heroic adulthood and death of a hero named Finn. Though much of the imagery accompanying and intensifying the reiterations of Finn's life-course derives from Celtic fantasy, and inevitably relates to the Finn MacCool cycle, the sequence is in no clear sense obedient to any single underlying Northern story, Celtic or Arthurian, though elements from these and other cycles appear throughout. The language throughout is strikingly intense, allusive, dislocatingly dreamlike, vivid'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket with review slip.
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25.00 GBP
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