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It is never safe to classify the souls of one’s neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool.

Cover of Lud-in-the-Mist.

Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees · published 1926 · read 2019-04-22

★★★☆☆

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees is a fantasy novel from 1926, which means it reads a bit aged – but not only that, it also subverts all kinds of implicit genre expectations, having been published before Tolkien and his larger-than-life i