Verlyn Flieger

• 2000
• / Horror
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• Oct-2002
• / Fantasy
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Near the village of Little Wicken, a baby girl is found abandoned in a field. Unwanted and unloved, the foundling grows up, existing on the grudging charity of the villagers. It is only when they notice her way with animals that the girl is given a p...

• Oct-2011
• / Fantasy
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Experience the essence of folktale, where time goes strange, sensory details are lush, and people are less and more than they seem. Flieger is the tale-teller supreme, the rhythm and language of fables and folklore her special forte. Four strangers m...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote T...

• Aug-2014
• / Fantasy
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• Dec-2017
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faërie, a world they both create and inhabit, ...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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Award-winning author Verlyn Flieger takes readers through a series of insightful short stories exploring tragic aspects of human nature. A few of the tales are dark, others a bit lighter, but all celebrate the creativity of storytelling. The second p...