The daughter of King Elfland. Lord Danseini

Edward John Morton Drakes Planckett, 18th Baron Danseini, published as Lord Danseini, is the famous author of many novels, plays and literary fairy tales, standing at the origins of the Fantasy genre itself. Perhaps the first in European literature he created a whole “secondary world” - with his cosmology, mythology, history and geography. His mythology influenced Lovecraft, Tolkien and Borges, and paradoxical humor, a constant game with reader expectations - on the Nile of Gaiman and the entire modern ironic fantasy. In the novel “The Daughter of the King of Elfland”, the parliament of the village of Earl, located near the border of the magic country, decided that the sorcerer ruled their land - and here Lord Earl sends his son and the heir in search of the daughter of King Elfland...