Aegypt/Daemonomania/Love and Sleep (Magill’s Choice: Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: John Crowley
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—Magical Realism
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century and late sixteenth century
- Setting: The eastern United States and Europe
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Magic or magicians, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Sixteenth century, Renaissance
- Locales: Europe, United States
The Story
Aegypt (also published as The Solitudes), Love and Sleep, and Daemonomania are the first three installments of Crowley’s projected four-volume novel (collectively entitled Aegypt) that concerns myth, history, Gnostic religious philosophy, and Renaissance magic. Its governing theme—which is exhaustively explored and restated throughout the text—is that there is more than one history of the world.
Aegypt chronicles Pierce Moffett’s escape to a rural life in the Catskills from his life in New York City and an...
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