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The King of Elfland's Daughter

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The King of Elfland's Daughter

By: Lord Dunsany
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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He contrasted the mortal world, in wonder, with the deep calm of his home, where the moment moved more slowly than the shadows of the houses here and did not pass until all the content with which a moment is stored had been drawn from it by every creature in Elfland.

The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the 'happily ever after'.

©2019 Lord Dunsany (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group
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Some of the happenings in the story, like Orion hunting Unicorn and the ceaseless mission to find Elfland, are iconic and stick in your mind. I'll listen to this story several times as there's a lot to take from it.

Fantastic, iconic storytelling

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