ISBN: 9781156332856

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Demon Princes is a five-book series of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery during his childhood. Each novel deals with his pursuit of one of the five Princes. The titles, Gersen's antagonists, and a few details of their plots, in order of publication: Significantly or not, Vance portrays each of his human criminal 'princes' (the humanoid alien Attel Malagate is the exception) as a frustrated artist, each working out his fantasies in a different medium. Much of The Book of Dreams centres on Treesong's attempt to retrieve his own youthful work of fantastic fiction (itself called The Book of Dreams): the portions reproduced in the novel could have come from one of Vance's own magical novellas. To some extent Treesong is prefigured in the repulsive yet almost pitiable protagonist of Vance's thriller Bad Ronald (1973). The first three books in the series appeared in 1964-67; there was a 12-year gap before the last two appeared in 1979 and 1981. The books were published as a two volume set, The Demon Princes, in 1997. Collectively they may be regarded as among Vance's most characteristic work. The Demon Princes books bring to its fullest flower Vances practice of augmenting and counterpointing his narrative by means of footnotes and, especially, lengthy or bizarre epigraphs drawn from imaginary works of literature, history, philosophy, newspaper reports, television interviews, court transcripts and so on. Some of these bear closely upon the plot in hand: for example, the quotations from The Demon Princes by Caril Carphen (published by the Elucidarian Pre. More: Books Demon-Princes-Series~~Books-LLC General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781156332856

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: LIFE JOURNEY, 40 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=3mm, Gew.=73gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert