Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Eric Rücker Eddison

Index Eric Rücker Eddison

Eric Rücker Eddison, CB, CMG (24 November 1882 – 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison. [1]

53 relations: A Fish Dinner in Memison, Adel, Leeds, Arthur Ransome, Board of Trade, Brian Attebery, C. S. Lewis, Christian Cameron, Christopher Paolini, Civil service, Clive Barker, Darrell Schweitzer, David Pringle, Don D'Ammassa, Douglas E. Winter, E. F. Bleiler, Egil's Saga, Eyrbyggja saga, Fantasy Masterworks, Heimskringla, High fantasy, Homer, Icelandic literature, Inklings, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jacobean era, James Branch Cabell, James Stephens (author), John Webster, L. Sprague de Camp, Leeds, Lin Carter, Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Michael Moorcock, Mistress of Mistresses, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Silverberg, Royal Air Force, Saga, Sappho, Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa, Styrbjörn the Strong, The Mezentian Gate, The New York Times Book Review, The Worm Ouroboros, Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ursula K. Le Guin, ..., William Shakespeare, World War I, Zimiamvian Trilogy. Expand index (3 more) »

A Fish Dinner in Memison

A Fish Dinner in Memison is a fantasy novel by English writer Eric Rücker Eddison, the second in his Zimiamvian Trilogy.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and A Fish Dinner in Memison · See more »

Adel, Leeds

Adel is a suburb in North Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Adel, Leeds · See more »

Arthur Ransome

Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Arthur Ransome · See more »

Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Board of Trade · See more »

Brian Attebery

Brian Attebery (born December 8, 1951) is an American academic writer on science fiction and fantasy fiction.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Brian Attebery · See more »

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and C. S. Lewis · See more »

Christian Cameron

Christian Gordon Cameron (born August 16, 1962), who writes under the pen names Gorden Kent and Miles Cameron, is a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an historian and a former career officer in the US Navy.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Christian Cameron · See more »

Christopher Paolini

Christopher James Paolini (born November 17, 1983 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Christopher Paolini · See more »

Civil service

The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Civil service · See more »

Clive Barker

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Clive Barker · See more »

Darrell Schweitzer

Darrell Charles Schweitzer (born August 27, 1952) is an American writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Darrell Schweitzer · See more »

David Pringle

David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and David Pringle · See more »

Don D'Ammassa

Donald Eugene D'Ammassa (born April 24, 1946) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror reviewer and author.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Don D'Ammassa · See more »

Douglas E. Winter

Douglas E. Winter (born October 30, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, critic and lawyer.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Douglas E. Winter · See more »

E. F. Bleiler

Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and E. F. Bleiler · See more »

Egil's Saga

Egil's Saga or Egill's saga (Egils saga) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egil Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Egil's Saga · See more »

Eyrbyggja saga

Eyrbyggja saga is one of the Icelanders' sagas; its title can be translated as The Saga of the People of Eyri. It was written by an anonymous writer, who describes a long-standing feud between Snorri Goði and Arnkel Goði, two strong chieftains within the Norse community that settled in Iceland.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Eyrbyggja saga · See more »

Fantasy Masterworks

Fantasy Masterworks is a series of British paperbacks intended to comprise "some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written", and claimed by its publisher Millennium (an imprint of Victor Gollancz) to be "the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy."According to the back cover of e.g. It has a companion series in the SF Masterworks line.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Fantasy Masterworks · See more »

Heimskringla

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Heimskringla · See more »

High fantasy

High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, defined either by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and High fantasy · See more »

Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Homer · See more »

Icelandic literature

Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Icelandic literature · See more »

Inklings

The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Inklings · See more »

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien · See more »

Jacobean era

The Jacobean era refers to the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland (1567–1625), who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era, and is often used for the distinctive styles of Jacobean architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature which characterized that period.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Jacobean era · See more »

James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and James Branch Cabell · See more »

James Stephens (author)

James Stephens (9 February 1880 – 26 December 1950) was an Irish novelist and poet.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and James Stephens (author) · See more »

John Webster

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and John Webster · See more »

L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and L. Sprague de Camp · See more »

Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Leeds · See more »

Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Lin Carter · See more »

Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers

Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy is a work of collective biography on the formative authors of the heroic fantasy genreTymn, Marshall B. "Guide to Resource Materials for Science Fiction and Fantasy Teachers," The English Journal, v. 68, no.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers · See more »

Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Marlborough, Wiltshire · See more »

Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Michael Moorcock · See more »

Mistress of Mistresses

Mistress of Mistresses is a fantasy novel by English writer Eric Rücker Eddison, the first in his in the Zimiamvian Trilogy First published in 1935, it centers on political intrigues between the nobles and rulers of the Three Kingdoms of Rerek, Meszria and Fingiswold, following the death of King Mezentius, an extraordinary ruler who has held sway over three kingdoms mainly through force of character.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Mistress of Mistresses · See more »

Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as regent for his father, King George III.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Order of St Michael and St George · See more »

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Order of the Bath · See more »

Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche developed his philosophy during the late 19th century.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche · See more »

Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Robert Silverberg · See more »

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Royal Air Force · See more »

Saga

Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages, and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Saga · See more »

Sappho

Sappho (Aeolic Greek Ψαπφώ, Psappho; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Sappho · See more »

Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa

Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa (The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion) is a short story, a þáttr on the Swedish claimant and Jomsviking Styrbjörn the Strong preserved in the Flatey Book (GKS 1005 fol 342-344, ca 1387-1395).

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa · See more »

Styrbjörn the Strong

Styrbjörn the Strong (Old Norse Styrbjörn Sterki) (died c. 985) was, according to late Norse sagas, the son of the Swedish king Olof, and the nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious, who defeated and killed Styrbjörn at the Battle of Fyrisvellir.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Styrbjörn the Strong · See more »

The Mezentian Gate

The Mezentian Gate is a fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison, the third in his Zimiamvian Trilogy.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and The Mezentian Gate · See more »

The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and The New York Times Book Review · See more »

The Worm Ouroboros

The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by English writer Eric Rücker Eddison, first published in 1922.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and The Worm Ouroboros · See more »

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Trinity College, Cambridge · See more »

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · See more »

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Ursula K. Le Guin · See more »

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and William Shakespeare · See more »

World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and World War I · See more »

Zimiamvian Trilogy

The Zimiamvian Trilogy is the title given to a collection of three novels by the author E. R. Eddison.

New!!: Eric Rücker Eddison and Zimiamvian Trilogy · See more »

Redirects here:

E. R. Eddison, E. R. R. Eddison, E.R. Eddison, ER Eddison, Eric Eddison, Eric Rucker Eddison, Eric Ruecker Eddison.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rücker_Eddison

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »