Title: Merlin
Title Record # 575401
Author: Robert Nye
Date: 1978-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Robert Nye
Date: 1978-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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"Robert Nye, poet and sleight-of-hand artist, undertakes roughly the same service for magician Merlin that he performed for Shakespeare's hill of flesh in Falstaff (1976). His narrative is a pastiche of dazzling incongruities, linked by the ghostly consciousness of Merlin as Heine envisioned him, a mere voice from the 'singing grave' of his last imprisonment. There Merlin tells his own story to the mute companions of his incarceration. ... there is no gainsaying the savage elegance of these japes--funny, painful, erotic, bursting with manic erudition."
--Kirkus Reviews 1979 (undated online)
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Merlin | 1978-00-00 | Robert Nye | Hamish Hamilton | 0-241-89952-4 | £4.95?£: UK pound |
215 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | John Ridgeway | |
Merlin | 1979-00-00 | Robert Nye | Penguin Books | 0-14-005149-X | £1.25?£: UK pound |
224 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Merlin | 1979-05-00 | Robert Nye | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 0-399-12331-8 | $10.00?$: US dollar |
215 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Steve Snider | |
Merlijn | 1980-00-00 | Robert Nye | Bruna | 90-229-5267-3 | 248 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Aubrey Beardsley | ||
Merlin | 1981-12-00 | Robert Nye | Bantam Books | 0-553-13550-3 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
238 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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Reviews
- Review by Charles Platt (1982) in The Patchin Review, Number Three
- Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1982) in Science Fiction Review, Spring 1982
- Review by Richard E. Geis (1982) in Science Fiction Review, Spring 1982
- Review by Stephen E. Andrews and Nick Rennison (2009) in 100 Must-Read Fantasy Novels