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The Not-World

By: Thomas Burnett Swann
Narrated by: Jem Matzan
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Thomas Burnett Swann was a brilliant fantasy writer who died in 1976. He wrote primarily about the ancient Greek and Roman world, blending myth with romance and adventure. A reviewer in the Village Voice sums his work up well: "Swann's neo-romantic fantasies of the past are unique. He uses the stuff of myth but with twists and inventions of his own."

The Not-World: One would not have expected to find the last hideout of the ancient weird folk of legend and prehistory in an English forest of two centuries ago… and yet in that land which has always been haunted by the lore of little folk there had to be some truth behind such universal belief.

The magic pen of Thomas Burnett Swann, master of fantasy and chronicler of the pre-humans, has produced in The Not-World one of his finest - and most piquant - novels.

Here is the story of Dylan and Deirdre, of Thomas Chatterton… and of the balloon flight that brought them into an older and more enchanted land to mingle their fates with those of Arachne and the Night Mares in whom a rising industrial materialism could no longer believe.

©1975 Thomas Burnett Swann (P)2015 Wildside Press LLC

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