THE DRAGON HOARD

by Tanith Lee ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 15, 1971

A pleasantly dotty, bourgeois fairyland in which enchantresses put their bats up in curlers, princes eat sausage sandwiches, and quests are hard come by. Prince Jasleth does manage to find a mission of a sort -- the search for the long lost Dragon Hoard, which provides an excuse for him to set sail with an inept bunch of pseudo-argonauts and get out of the house for a while (since his habit of changing into a raven unexpectedly gets on Dad's nerves). All this silliness is executed with commendable elan, and readers who can suspend judgment long enough to make their way through the talking peacocks and the initial ""Sleeping Beauty"" birthday maledictions will find themselves enmeshed in the ever-thickening tangle of workaday illusion and imaginative reality. While Miss Lee adds no memorable new landmarks to the world of fantasy, she manages to work some whimsical changes on the old stock-in-trade.

Pub Date: Oct. 15, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION