Little, Big

Little, Big

By John Crowley
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“A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

Finalist for the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel

Finalist for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

Finalist for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel

Edgewood—which is not found on any map—is many houses, all put inside each other or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment; the further in you go, the bigger it gets.

Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, travels from the City on foot to Edgewood, her family home. There he finds himself on the magical border of an otherworld.

Crowley's work has a special alchemy—mixing the world we know with an imagined world that seems more true and real. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Little, Big is elegant, sensual, funny, and unforgettable. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss, of impossible things and unshakable destinies, and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

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  1. Edward
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    Brilliant. Multilayered, profound, disturbing, and beautiful.

    There's a reason that Harold Bloom, arguably the world's foremost living Shakespeare scholar, lists "Little, Big" as the book that most influenced his life in recent years. Crowley interweaves Shakespeare, Yeats, Shelley, La Fontaine, and a dozen other literary threads into a Tale that spans multiple worlds, and is ultimately a profound and beautiful story of love. I wish a more professional narrator had been chosen, but Crowley's narration at particular moments is touching and revealing.

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