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Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light . Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: ... read more

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  • “The tenement in the Rue Sepile filled him with disgust for the people among whom he must now make his life. It's stairways wound like a tedious argument, luring part of his brain along with them until he found himself thinking, apropos of nothing, If the dead have a city it is like this one, and it smells of rats and withered geraniums...”

Table of Contents

1. Viriconium Knights
2. The Pastel City
3. Lords of Misrule
4. Strange Great Sins
5. A Storm of Wings
6. The Dancer from the Dance
7. The Luck in the Head
8. The Lamia and Lord Cromis
9. In Viriconium
10. A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium

Authors & Contributors

  1. M. John Harrison (Author)
 

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