From carousing with Robin Hood to crossing swords with the Green Knight and stealing a ride on Huck Finn's raft, our traveler, A. This rollicking adventure begins with a shipwreck on an island where notable characters of literature, history, and folklore coexist - Hamlet and Oedipus, Don Quixote and Doctor Faustus, Becky Sharp and Daniel Boone. Join an unlikely hero as he watches Moby-Dick sink the Pequod, dodges cannibals on Robinson Crusoe's island, raises a glass with Beowulf, and literally goes to Hell and back. Whether or not you recognize its scores of literary allusions, you'll savor its wealth of battles, quests, romances, songs, and laughter. "Here in your hand is the stuff of wonder," declared science-fiction author Poul Anderson, adding, "There are few such glorious romps in all the world's literature, and surely none that surpass this one." Unjustly overlooked for decades, this book lover's book has developed a devoted cult following and richly deserves a wider audience.
And just as the truths of great stories ennoble those who take them to heart, a selfish and cynical drifter is transformed into the gallant knight known as Silverlock.
Clarence Shandon, undertakes a whirlwind tour of the classics. He will be amused by the wicked wit that illumines the vast panorama, and intrigued by the challenge it offers his own learning.Join an unlikely hero as he watches Moby-Dick sink the Pequod, dodges cannibals on Robinson Crusoe's island, raises a glass with Beowulf, and literally goes to Hell and back. And in the discovering, the literate reader will have a wonderful time. Clarence Shandon came to the Commonwealth, exchanging his everyday name and Chicago-bound life for that of a traveler beyond time what great ones of old legend and modern story he encountered, and to what purpose what loves he knew and what fights he fought what trials befell him in the Pit, and what truth he discovered when at last he won to the Hippocrene Spring-these are matters of such crowding variety and implicit significance as the reader must discover for himself. Always it is fresh and bold in concept, superb in its execution. In content, it is something between a many-peopled, incident-studded story of high emprise, and a morality for our time. In form, it is sheer headlong narrative, with occasional clangorous verses woven into its fabric. In essence, this is the tale of Silverlock's wanderings in the Commonwealth, the land of immortal heroes real and imagined, in search of his true destiny. In this richly picaresque story of a modern man's fruitful adventurings in legendary realms of gold, John Myers Myers has presented a glowing tapestry of real excitement and meaning. SILVERLOCK is one of the all-time great fantasy classics.
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