Lord Dunsany 3 hr 43 min read

The Parliament of Erl wishes to be ruled by a magic lord, so young Alveric is sent across the fields we know into Elfland, to win the King's own daughter, Lirazel, for his bride.

Lord Dunsany's 1924 novel is one of the supreme masterpieces of fantasy literature. Lyrical, luminous, unforgettable. Read it for perhaps the most beautiful fantasy novel ever written, a mortal's love for an elf-princess, the ebb and flow of magic across the border of Elfland, told in Dunsany's incomparable jeweled prose.

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 43 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).