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The Dying Earth
- Tales of the Dying Earth, Book 1
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom and beauty - lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home in Vance’s lyrically described fantastic landscapes, like Embelyon, where, “The sky [was] a mesh of vast ripples and cross-ripples and these refracted a thousand shafts of colored light, rays which in mid-air wove wondrous laces, rainbow nets, in all the jewel hues....”
The dying Earth itself is otherworldly: “A dark blue sky, an ancient sun.... Nothing of Earth was raw or harsh—the ground, the trees, the rock ledge protruding from the meadow; all these had been worked upon, smoothed, aged, mellowed. The light from the sun, though dim, was rich and invested every object of the land ... with a sense of lore and ancient recollection.” Welcome.
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- Loretta.
- 27-11-2022
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance 💜
I enjoyed this book Its an adult fantasy with unicorns
prince's witches And thank you Arthur Morey for reading to me much appreciated.🖤💜
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- Anonymous User
- 02-11-2020
So much imagination
This book, although written so long ago is so entertaining for the mind to picture
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- Roy Cross
- 15-09-2016
Great story and recording
The audio and performance were good, and matched the text. My only complaint is that a few words are mispronounced, which is jarring given the text. nevertheless, it is a great recording and well worth a credit.
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