Aegypt novels
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Aegypt: the solitudes , Aegypt novels volume 1
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2) Love & Sleep
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An occult historian's journey of discovery continues in the second volume of this renowned literary fantasy series by "a deliciously elegant writer" (Kirkus).
In The Solitudes, John Crowley introduced readers to Pierce Moffett, a scholar whose area of expertise lies beyond the realm of our daily reality: a land of the imagination known as 'gypt. Retreating to the quiet of upstate New York, Moffett discovers the works of Fellows Kraft, an uncanny...
3) Dæmonomania
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As the winter solstice approaches, so does the final battle of an age-old war in this third novel of the landmark literary fantasy series.
The would-be historian and author Pierce Moffett has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover-or rediscover-a path into magic, past and present. Meanwhile, single mother Rosie Rasmussen grapples with her mysterious uncle's legacy and her young daughter Samantha's inexplicable seizures....
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This is the fourth novel-and much-anticipated conclusion-of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded Ægypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffitt, the Ægypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony...