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		<title>Hobberdy Dick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hobberdy Dick is obscure, even compared to other fantasy classics: Woe&#8217;s me, woe&#8217;s me! The acorn&#8217;s not yet Fallen from the tree That&#8217;s to make the cradle That&#8217;s to rock the bairn [lad] That&#8217;s to grow to a man That&#8217;s to lay me. — The Cauld Lad of Hilton&#8217;s Song Sometimes, it&#8217;s the quiet ones. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hobbit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hobbit is one of the few classics of fantasy that needs little introduction: &#8220;In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.&#8221; — Bartlett&#8217;s Familiar Quotations What do you say about the second most famous book by the world&#8217;s most famous fantasy author? Without The Lord of the Rings, there would be no [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Wonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before there was Tolkien, there was Lord Dunsany, John Rateliff reminds us: &#8220;I do not know where I may be when this preface is read&#8230; But it does not greatly matter where I am; my dreams are here before you amongst the following pages&#8230; [W]riting in a day when life is cheap [e.g., the middle [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rendezvous in Averoigne</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clark Ashton Smith was one of &#8220;The Three Musketeers of Weird Tales&#8221; — but he was always the least popular, if the most talented, according to John Rateliff: &#8220;In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Mr. Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living.&#8221;. — H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Three Dragons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Rateliff calls Kenneth Morris (1879-1937) one of the great forgotten fantasists of the twentieth century and praises his Book of the Three Dragons: &#8220;[T]he ancients did not posit omniscience or omnipotence as qualities of those whom they called the Gods: they saw evil in the world, and were logical&#8230;. [T]he Gods were the great [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Watership Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watership Down qualifies as one of the more unusual fantasy classics: &#8220;All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you&#8230; Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.&#8221; — Lord Frith&#8217;s promise [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Night Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few masterpieces have been so little read, or so deeply misunderstood, yet so influential as The Night Land, John Rateliff says: &#8220;In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. Whatever faults the book might possess&#8230; it impresses the reader as being&#8230; the last epic of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Face in the Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Rateliff discusses another almost-forgotten classic of fantasy, The Face in the Frost: Several centuries (or so) ago, in a country whose name doesn&#8217;t matter, there was a tall, skinny, straggly-bearded old wizard named Prospero, and not the one you&#8217;re thinking of, either.[1] At the very back of the original 1st edition Dungeon Master&#8217;s Guide [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wizard of Earthsea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Rateliff describes A Wizard of Earthsea: &#8220;[T]hat which gives us the power to work magic sets the limits of that power. A mage can control only what is near him, what he can name exactly and wholly. And this is well. If it were not so, the wickedness of the powerful or the folly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft has become something of a geek staple over the years for his &#8220;sanity blasting&#8221; horror stories. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, on the other hand, is a fantasy classic: Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvellous city, and three times he was snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace [&#8230;]]]></description>
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