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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1958

Pages
  
xxiv, 247 pp

Author
  
Eric Rücker Eddison

Genre
  
Fantasy Fiction

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Illustrator
  
Keith Henderson

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1958

Publisher
  
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Similar
  
Eric Rücker Eddison books, Zimiamvian Trilogy books, Fantasy books

The Mezentian Gate is the third novel in the Zimiamvian Trilogy by Eric Rücker Eddison. It is primarily a history of the rule of the fictional King Mezentius (the Tyrant of Fingiswold), and his methods of gaining and holding the Three Kingdoms of Fingiswold, Meszria and Rerek in sway.

Published posthumously, The Mezentian Gate is only partially completed as prose. In many of the central chapters, only the plot outline is presented. The first edition, published in 1958, comprised those chapters completed by Eddison, supplemented by an "Argument" summarizing the unfinished portions of the novel. An omnibus edition of the trilogy, published in 1992 as Zimiamvia, supplemented the 1958 text with unfinished draft texts for several never-completed chapters found among Eddison's manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. The expanded version was published in an independent edition by Harper Collins in 2014.

The Mezentian Gate is chronologically the first book in the Zimiamvian Trilogy.

References

The Mezentian Gate Wikipedia


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