Hope Mirrlees

Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid.Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his own daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his young son, he realises that something is changing in Lud - and something must be done.Lud-in-the-Mist is a true classic, an adult fairy tale exploring the need to embrace what we fear and to come to terms with 'the shadows' - those sweet and dark impulses that our public selves ignore or repress.Featuring a foreword read by Neil Gaiman.

París: Un poema representa un importante hito en la vanguardia en lengua inglesa. Publicado en 1920 en Hogarth Press, la mítica editorial fundada y dirigida por Leonard y Virginia Woolf, condensó muchos de los postulados del modernismo (el gusto por lo "oculto", la fragmentación, el carácter o el "método mítico", las alusiones literarias, históricas y políticas o la libertad formal) y antecedió en casi tres años a "La tierra baldía", de T. S. Eliot. Una auténtica "joya perdida" de la cual ofrecemos la primera traducción al castellano.

Spanning several decades of her life, multiple continents, and significant events, this collection of Hope Mirrlees’s poetry includes previously unpublished work and the modernist writer’s later poems and essays, written circa 1920. Also included is the full text of Paris: A Poem, a daylong, psycho-geographical flânerie through the streets and metro tunnels of post-World War I Paris. Groundbreaking and illuminating, this volume is a testament to Mirrlees’s contribution to 20th-century poetry.

Mirrlees set her first novel, One of Love's Jansenists (1919), in and around the literary circles of the 17th Century Précieuses, and particularly those salons frequented by Mlle de Scudéry.

The Counterplot is the second novel by Hope Mirrlees. Written in 1923, it was originally published in 1924, and is the only one of Mirrlees's three novels to take place in contemporary settings.The novel's protagonist is Teresa Lane, a woman of 28, living in Plasencia, a villa in the South-East of England, shortly after World War I, who studies the spectacle of her family life with the intent of transforming it into art. The result is a play, The Key, written by Teresa after the style of the Spanish autos sacramentales and set in Seville during the reign of Pedro the Cruel, the text of which is reproduced in its entirety within chapter eleven.

The 'fly in amber' is Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, Baronet--a gentleman of ancient family and considerable wealth, a courtier and man about town, sometime court antiquary to James I. Sir Robert was an indefatigable collector of manuscripts, rare books and objects of vertu -- articles of beauty and of oddity. At first sight, his life might seem to be of interest only to bibliophiles and to such readers as seek to know about the origins of our great libraries and museums. But Sir Robert knew everybody who was anybody during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, and in Miss Hope Mirrlees he has found the the ideal biographer to make him interesting to a wider public. Miss Mirrlees combines great learning, exact scholarship, infinite curiosity about human beings, a keen sense of humour and a delightful style. The result is a book, as readable as any gossip column, but invaluable to the student of the society of that age. We meet Cecils and Howards, and many lesser names of importance in their day; we read of Dr. John Donne and other men of letters. We come into touch with high politics as well as intrigue and scandal. So besides relating the life of a very engaging personality this book makes us acquainted with the society of two reigns. We cannot think of any book to which to liken A Fly in Amber. We hope that Miss Mirrlees will give us another to match it.