{"product_id":"tales-of-neveryon-9780553123333","title":"Tales of Neveryon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTales of Neveryon\u003c\/strong\u003e by Samuel R. Delany. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780553123333.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿons four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilizations brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission - or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators and commentators introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bantam # 12333-5","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967236108341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0553123335","price":59.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553123333_13ac0a0d-3213-4139-ac62-0de42365027e.jpg?v=1781438116","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tales-of-neveryon-9780553123333","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}