I write fiction, including the Melody trilogy of fantasy novels, and non-fiction including study guides to Chaucer. Please visit rnswan.com for more details.
A charming fairy tale, with all the wry humour and gentle wit that you’d expect from Thurber (and yes, including his characteristic line drawings). The story is quite conventional: three princes compete for the love of a princess who had been magically transformed into the shape of a deer. There’s a wizard or two, a trickster dwarf, an officious court functionary…
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All the traditional elements are there but, predictably, they’re subverted, very much in the manner of his elder contemporary, James Branch Cabell.
I write fiction, including the Melody trilogy of fantasy novels, and non-fiction including study guides to Chaucer. Please visit rnswan.com for more details.
