โ Jack Vance
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ English
โ 200 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Cugel's Saga
โ Scribed by Jack Vance
- Publisher
- Baen;Brilliance Audio, Morey, Arthur, Vance, Jack
- Year
- 1984;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Vance sees himself in the tradition of popular fantasy writers, but his classic writing style is also comparagle to Homers Odyssey, and Cervante's Don Quixote. Though the Cugel tales may lack the scope and pathos of the greatest adventure yarns, in the twenty-first century, they may be as close as one gets to the celebration of epic human perseverance."--editor, Brilliance Audio Cugels Saga, published 17 years after Eyes of the Overworld, is the second novel that features the scoundrel and trickster, Cugel. Again, Cugel tests wits with Iucounu and acquires rudimentary powers himself. Cugel the Clever [is] a rogue so venal and unscrupulous that that he makes Harry Flashman look like Dudley Do-Right. How could you not love a guy like that? .... Judging from the number of times that Cugel has come back ... you cant keep a bad man down. George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire. Cugel the Clever [is] a liar and thief in a doomed world of liars and thieves.... Probably the least attractive hero it would be possible to find, struggling through a universe like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, a hero only in that nearly everybody else he encounters in that universe is on the make too, and yet the Cugel stories are howlingly funny. Kage Baker, author of Empress of Mars.
Library : Fantasy
Universes : The Dying Earth [03]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780671559175
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