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Whereas in ''Madeleine'' and '' The Counterplot '' Mirrlees took from historical figures, religions and literature the elements with which to build her stage, her use of a secondary-world setting in ''Lud-in-the-Mist'' links it to a tradition of High Fantasy , and thence to its current locus of popularity. In 1970 , an American reprint appeared without the author's permission, as part of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series . But ''Lud-in-the-Mist'' 's unconventional elements, equally responsible for its appeal to the fantasy readership and distinction within the genre, are better-understood if they are taken in the context of her whole oeuvre. In this novel, the law-abiding inhabitants of Lud-in-the-Mist, a city located at the confluence of the rivers Dapple and Dawl, in the fictional state of Dorimare, must contend with the influx of fairy fruit from the bordering Land of Faerie, whose presence they had sought to deny from their rational existence. Their mayor, the respectable Nathaniel Chanticleer, finds himself quite reluctantly at the center of the conflict. ''Lud-in-the-Mist'' begins with a quotation by Jane Harrison , whose influence is also found in ''Madeleine'' and '' The Counterplot ''. It is dedicated to the memory of Mirrlees's father. |
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