The Lavender Dragon

Excerpt from The Lavender Dragon And felt it, for he chanced to be unhappily married. 'a grizzled, lean Yorkshireman of fifty was George, and since Sir Jasper enjoyed great wealth and entertained the highest Opinion of his supporter, the squire felt well, satisfied of his present employ. The better was he pleased, because their expedition, now drawing to its close, had encountered no hard ships and proceeded with reasonable comfort, smiled upon by good weather, devoid of any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"A delightful exercise in inverted perspective." — Fantasy Literature. Charming modern fantasy, recounted with whimsical humor, relates a stalwart knight's encounter with a benevolent dragon who transports lonely and unwanted individuals to a utopia of abundance and harmony.

Kylie Pendragon has accepted her life in Thaydon, serving as a medicine woman and witch. Her new life is shattered when she attends King Matthew Sheridans Christmas wake, for the wizard Lignoss crashes the wake and kidnaps Kelly. Twisting Kellys religion, Lignoss creates a dangerous cult, promising the enslaved white men of Bromfryel freedom if they slaughter the black aristocrats and declare Lignoss King. Suddenly, the book of Revelations comes true as people disappear. Desperate, Kylie resurrects Sheridan, knowing the superheroes will renounce her. Sheridans magic alone can help Kylie save Kelly, and Bromfryel. But can Kylie stop the apocalypse?

One month has passed since Kylie Pendragon killed Sheridan to rescue her friends. Suddenly, Rex Terras Emperor decides to raze the only forest standing between Rex Terra and the rampant, genocidal sea. Using magic to shield the forest, Kylie returns to Earth for safety. There, she meets pyromanceress Zulieka Tribliuex, who kidnaps Brenda. Kylie saves Brenda, giving her superpowers. Together, they safeguard the forest until Zulieka starts murdering people, then reincarnating them into a fiery army. Kylie realizes she must learn dragon magic to stop both Zulieka, and the Emperor. The only way is by liberating the captive lavender dragons.

Furius, King of Authia, is dead. Armed with only his father's sword and an ancient dragon pendant, Dagan, the son of the King, flees into the Highlands, where the dragon, Aurifer, rescues him. But Dagan's relief is quickly shattered when he accidentally injures one of the dragon younglings, Corylus. Faced with the loss of his kingdom and the shame of his act, Dagan vows to heal Corylus and quests for the healing spring of Apenninus. But standing between Dagan and the spring is the Twelve Kingdoms ruled by the ruthless Praetor Marius. To fulfill his promise, Dagan must face his father's killer and choose between the oath of friendship and revenge.

Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.