Gloriana: Or, The unfulfill'd queen : being a romance - Hardcover
A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any form of sexual satisfaction, no matter what fetish she tries. Her problem is in fact symbolic of the hypocrisy of her entire court. While her life is meant to mirror that of her nation - an image of purity, virtue, enlightenment and prosperity - the truth is that her peaceful empire is kept secure by her wicked chancellor Monfallcon and his corrupt network of spies and murderers, the most sinister of whom is Captain Quire, who is commissioned to seduce Gloriana and thus bring down Albion and the entire empire.
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SALES POINTS * Part of the Fantasy Masterworks series * 'A great read...fiction writing at its best; a craftsman in full possession of his powers as Moorcock is here is a joy' Maxim Jakubowski, Vector * 'He is a giant. If you are at all interested in fantastic fiction, you must read Michael Moorcock' Tad Williams * 'Vastly entertaining' Science Fiction Review * 'A complex fantasy richly and convincingly textured' Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Locus * 'He casts a heady, enslaving spell' Ruth Rendell * A wonderful and brilliant fantasy set in a superbly realized alternate Elizabethan England.
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"The intrigues, the lords and maidens ... are woven into a tapestry that is as wonderful as it is funny." -- Newsday
"Vastly entertaining...a labor of love, and a triumphant one." -- William Gibson
"[Moorcock is] the greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy." -- Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
"The intrigues, the lords and maidens ... are woven into a tapestry that is as wonderful as it is funny." -- Newsday
"Vastly entertaining...a labor of love, and a triumphant one." -- William Gibson
"[Moorcock is] the greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy." -- Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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- PublisherAllison & Busby
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 085031237X
- ISBN 13 9780850312379
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages348
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. "In one of the best of Moorcock's many novels, he employs the conventions of the eighteenth-century novel in conjunction with influences such as Edmund Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEEN (1590; 1596) to create a truly original work about an alternative England and its history." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-266. GLORIANA is a long novel: copiously inventive, funny, exciting, sometimes disgusting, and always rich with allusions. It contains references not only to Spenser, Peake and English history, but to the whole of Michael Moorcock's own extensive body of fiction -- from Sexton Blake and Elric of Melnibone to Una Persson and the Dancer at the End of Time. Although brilliantly successful in its own terms, it is also a portmanteau work which serves as a keystone in a personal mythology: a summing-up of the fifty or so novels which its author had already produced, and a clearing of the decks in preparation for other major books to come." - Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 67. "An evocative, tender and haunting novel which ranks among the best examples of contemporary fantasy with a classical, historical background." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-183. Winner of the 1979 World Fantasy Award and the 1979 John W. Campbell Award. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing along top and bottom edges and some lamination curl along top edge. (#140613). Seller Inventory # 140613
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