The Phoenix and the Mirror

✍ Scribed by Avram Davidson

• Publisher: Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 143 KB
• Series: Vergil Magus 01
• Edition: Gollancz eBook (2013)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0575130385
• ASIN: B00GYIVW72

✦ Synopsis

{ August 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. }
Paperback, 240 pages
Published 1969
Gollancz eBook (2013)
Fantasy Masterwork
Introduction by: Adam Roberts (2013)
Legend has it that Virgil, author of THE AENEID, was more than a mere poet. Legend has it that he was an adventurer, an alchemist - a magus.
Driven to do the bidding of Queen Cornelia of Carsus, who has taken hostage part of his soul, Virgil embarks upon an attempt to create a virgin speculum - a magic mirror - so that Cornelia can locate her kidnapped daughter.
Virgil's quest to assemble this artifact takes him across the ancient world to encounter powers and prophecies, gods and monsters - all the myths and legends of a time that never was. The time of Virgil Magus.
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