[Ballantine Adult Fantasy 00] • The Worm Ouroboros

The first of three related but independent books by E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros is a novel of thundering adventure. Set on a far planet of spectacular beauty and peopled by lords and kings, mighty warriors and raven-haired women, Eddison’s story of a great war for domination rises to peaks of splendor and excitement.

A novel which creates its own fantastic world, The Worm Ouroboros makes our present age seem pale by comparison and is considered one of the masterpieces of imaginative fiction.