Neil Gaiman wrote an introduction to the edition I read and I can see that he meant every word. "Hope Mirrlees' writing, usually underrated, moves between gently crazy humour, poetic snatches, real menace, and real poignancy."-The Encyclopedia of Fantasyģ0-odd years before Tolkein published “The Lord of the Rings”, a British woman named Hope Mirrlees wrote a fantasy called “Lud-in-the-Mist”. Under her own name, she published three novels: Madeleine- One of Life's Jansenists (1921) The Counterplot (1924) and her 1926 classic fantasy Lud-in-the-Mist, which has acknowledged inspiration to the likes of Neil Gaiman, Mary Gentle, Elizabeth Hand, Johanna Russ, and Tim Powers."-SF Site Eliot, André Gide, Katharine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats. Mirrlees was a close friend of such literary lights as Walter de la Mare, T.S. "Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887.
But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. Hope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist-a classic fantasy, and her only fantasy novel-in 1926. a little golden miracle of a book." -Neal Gaiman "The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century.
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