A Fish Dinner in Memison

by E.R. Eddison

Book Overview

The second volume in the classic epic trilogy of parallel worlds, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction. A lady strays from a garden path and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345272226
• ISBN13: 9780345272225
• Release Date: March 1978
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Book That Made Me Fall in Love with Fantasy

Ok, I confess I read this book in the series first. I bought my original copy at a roadside flea market for a dime in the early 70's in a rural county in an appalachian state. No idea how it got there. I still have that copy sitting on my shelf beside the Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses and The Menzentian Gate. Eddison created this baroque world similar to the plots and counterplots of Renaissance Europe. It is guaranteed to appeal to adolsecent anqst but there is also enough meat to hook the inquiring mind for a lifetime. I haven't read it in a long time because I don't need to do so, I carry it around in my mind-- from which it peeks now and then when something calls it up. His prose is deliberately archaic. His books are not an easy read but they well repay reading.

Read Book #3 first, then #2 and finally #1

A great series. Suggest you start, however with Book #3 of the Trilogy, The Mezentian Gate and then this book, A Fish Dinner in Memison, and then finally Book #1, Mistress of Mistresses last. This order is how the books progress #3,2,1, but not how they were written. Even better is to read The Worm Ouroboros first a couple of times before the Zimiamvian Triology.