THE SCARLET FIG by Avram Davidson

THE SCARLET FIG
by Avram Davidson

THE SCARLET FIG is the third and final novel of the Vergil Magus sequence by Avram Davidson. Following The Phoenix and The Mirror and Vergil In Averno, The Scarlet Fig follows Vergil's adventures in an alternate ancient Mediterranean world where harpies, basilisks, and satyrs co-exist with Rome, Carthage, and the Punic Wars.

Filled with Davidson's sparkling wit, arcane erudition, and vivid imagination, THE SCARLET FIG is the capstone to Davidson's acclaimed sequence of novels that began with The Phoenix and the Mirror and Vergil in Averno.

Edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells.

THE SCARLET FIG is an individually numbered Limited Edition oversize hardback with luxury bindings and Piranesi endpapers. 285 pages including afterwords by the editors, facsimiles of cards from the Encyclopaedia of Vergil Magus that Avram Davidson compiled during the three decades he worked on the Vergil cycle and appendices containing four Vergil Magus short stories and vignettes.

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"Some books have significance and value beyond their pure value as novels. Certainly The Scarlet Fig is one such - the long awaited third Vergil novel from the late Avram Davidson. Its value as fiction is high enough, mind you. It's very characteristic of late Davidson, stuffed with evidence of his erudition, the prose complicated, eccentric, enjoyable. The story concerns Vergil's travels after he leaves Rome ("Yellow Rome"), fearful of accusations of having tarnished a Vestal Virgin, and also menaced by piratical Carthaginians. He visits many strange shores: Corsica, Tingitayne, the Region called Huldah (and its beautiful eponymous ruler), the island of the Lotophageans, where he drinks of the Scarlet Fig, and finally the Land of Stone in North Africa. All along we witness much magic and many wonders - all reflecting the altered Rome of Davidson's Vergil Magus, a Rome reflecting the legends that accumulated in the Middle Ages: so, gloriously grotesque satyrs, victims of the cockatrix, the dogs of the Guaramanty, etc. It is also beautifully presented: a large handsome hardcover, with beautiful illustrations, and much excellent additional material,"


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