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By Ellen Kushner
Award-winning writer and radio character Ellen Kushner’s encouraged retelling of an old legend weaves fantasy and magic right into a bright
contemporary novel concerning the mysteries of the human center. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical ameliorations, this is the undying story of a charismatic bard whose abilities earn him a two-edged otherworldly gift.
A minstrel lives via his phrases, his tunes, and infrequently by way of his lies. but if the daring and proficient younger Thomas the Rhymer awakens the need of the robust Queen of Elfland, he unearths that phrases should not sufficient to maintain him from his destiny. because the Queen sweeps him faraway from the folks he has identified and enjoyed into her realm of magic, opulence—and captivity—he learns eventually what it really is to be really human. while he returns to his domestic with the Queen’s parting present, his nice job may be to find the lady he enjoyed and wronged, and provide her finally the tongue that can't lie.
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The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances 44 xi. The family still resolve to hold up their heads 48 xii. Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities 52 xiii. Mr. Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice 56 xiv. Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings 59 Contents 6 xv.
The Little Republic” of the Family: Goldsmith’s Politics of Nostalgia’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 16/2 (Jan. 2004), 174–96. Dixon, Peter, Oliver Goldsmith Revisited (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991). Select Bibliography xliii Durant, David, ‘The Vicar of Wakefield and the Sentimental Novel’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 17 (1977), 477–91. , ‘The Vicar of Wakefield: “Sickly Sensibility” and the Rewards of Fortune’, in The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1974), 148–72.
Readers—many of them women—were throughout the century increasingly drawn to works of fiction that exhibited the moving spectacle of ‘virtue in distress’; one’s own ability to empathize with the misfortunes of fictional others was looked upon as a measure of the strength of one’s own ‘heart’ and of the vigour of those moral principles that in turn dictate the behaviour of our lives. Novels such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Clarissa simply paved the way for later works containing even more provocative displays of (usually female) suffering, all designed to draw forth from readers as highly sensitized and as actively sympathetic a response as possible.