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Hope Mirrlees

Born

in The United Kingdom

December 13, 1887

Died

January 01, 1978

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926); three volumes of poetry, including Paris: A Poem (1919), described by the critic Julia Briggs as "modernism's lost masterpiece"; and A Fly in Amber (1962), a biography of the British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.
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Average rating: 3.85 · 10,063 ratings · 1,457 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Douglas A. Anderson (Introduction) 3.85 avg rating — 9,615 ratings — published 1926 — 124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris 3.90 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1920 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems by Hope Mirrlees, Sandeep Parmar (Editor), Julia Briggs (Commentator) 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1919 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Counterplot 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1924 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of the Bear: being twenty-one tales translated from the Russian by Jane Harrison (Translator), Hope Mirrlees (Translator), Ray Garnett (Illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moods & Tensions: Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fly in Amber: Being An Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1962 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Três Poetas Modernissimas by Mina Loy, Hope Mirrlees, Nancy Cunard it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LUD-IN-THE-MIST 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

tags: drugs, endymion-leer, opiates, poppies, reason, temporary-relief

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“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

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“Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

tags: pride, resentment

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May General Fantasy Poll
Please cast your vote for the book you'd like to read in May, for discussion in June.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Terry Pratchett & Gaiman, Neil

7 votes, 18.4%

Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson

6 votes, 15.8%

Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb

5 votes, 13.2%

The Lions of al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay

4 votes, 10.5%

Legend - David Gemmell

3 votes, 7.9%

Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay

3 votes, 7.9%

Lud-In-The-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

2 votes, 5.3%

The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud

2 votes, 5.3%

The Book of Joby - Mark J. Ferrari

2 votes, 5.3%

Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was - Barry Hughart

2 votes, 5.3%

The Naming The First Book of Pellinor - Alison Croggon

1 vote, 2.6%

Daughter of the Blood - Anne Bishop

1 vote, 2.6%

The Steel Remains - Richard K. Morgan

0 votes, 0.0%

Thunderer - Felix Gilman

0 votes, 0.0%

Lamentation - Ken Scholes

0 votes, 0.0%

Dies the Fire - S.M. Stirling

0 votes, 0.0%

38 total votes

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