Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melniboné
by Michael Moorcock
Book One of the Elric Saga
BOOK ONE
On the island kingdom of Melniboné all the old rituals are still observed, though the nation’s power has waned for five hundred years, and now her way of life is maintained only by her trade with the Young Kingdoms and the fact that the city of Imrryr has become the meeting place of merchants. Are those rituals no longer useful; can the rituals be denied and doom avoided? One who would rule in Emperor Elri ...