Dec 24, 2009

Aegypt/Daemonomania/Love and Sleep | Aegypt/Daemonomania/Love and Sleep

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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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Aegypt/Daemonomania/Love and Sleep | Aegypt/Daemonomania/Love and Sleep

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