- Fiction, Hell, Devil, Good and evil
Mym was a dutiful son, but his father the Rajah interfered in his love life once too often. Rather than wed without love, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of office of the Incarnation of War. When seeming mischance placed him in Hell, Mym organized a great rebellion among the Damned...
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Classical in form, unpretentious, epic and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Piers Anthony
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Severn House, Random House Publishing Group, Del Rey
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345322210
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“It was a traveling show, the kind that drifted from village to village, performing for thrown rupees.”
Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England. When he was four years old, his family immigrated to the United States. He graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1956, the year he met and married his wife, Carol Marble. After working at odd jobs, he joined the U.S. Army in 1957 for steady income and medical insurance. In 1958, he became a U.S. citizen. He became an editor and cartoonist for the Battalion newspaper. He left the army in 1959 and briefly taught public school before becoming a full-time writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida.
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