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Swords and Deviltry [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser volume 1]

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Swords and Deviltry [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser volume 1]

by Leiber, Fritz

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9780583130844
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Grafton, London, 1988. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. second-hand copy, some rubbing of the edges of the paperback binding, no other damage. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser adventures. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [8], 9 - 254, [2 – further titles from publishing house] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; heroic fantasy; illustrated; ISBN: 0583130844. ISBN/EAN: 9780583130844. Inventory No: 0283800. . 9780583130844

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Ramsey Campbell, one of England's most highly regarded British horror authors, called Fritz Leiber "the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction."Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that describes the sub-genre he helped create. Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon's grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber's fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization's corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery.Swords and Deviltry, the first book of Leiber's landmark series, introduces us to a strange world where our two strangers find the familiar in themselves and discover the icy power of female magic. Three master-magician femme-fatales and a sprightly lad illuminate the bonds between father and son, the relationship between the bravado of the imagination, and the courage of fools.A hedge wizard explains the cold war between the sexes.Mouse and Fafhrd meet again and learn the truth of how Mouse became the Gray Mouser. Together they traverse the smoke and mirrors of Lankhmar learning more and more of the foggy world in which they live, mapping the sinister silent symptoms of the never-ending night-smog. They follow the night-smog's relation to the region's longing for larceny and the hazy opiate of vanity. Last but certainly not least, they experience the pleasures and pains of the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokers that will lead them to countless more adventures and misadventures.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
0283800
Title
Swords and Deviltry [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser volume 1]
Author
Leiber, Fritz
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good Condition
Quantity Available
1
Edition
reprint
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0583130844
ISBN 13
9780583130844
Publisher
Grafton
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1988
Keywords
BZDB2 fantasy, heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Science Fiction & Fantasy; heroic fantasy; illustrated; Unbranded ISBN: 0583130844 EAN: 9780583130844 Leiber, Fritz Swords and Deviltry [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser volume 1
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