![]() She is doomed to keep the magician's house forever, cut off from human society without her shadow.Īt first, Ramon Alonzo resolves to keep his shadow, even when it turns out to be the price for learning to change metals into gold. She, herself, has lost her shadow in exchange for an extended life, and she received the bad end of the bargain, for though she is immortal, still she ages. ![]() Although he has some trepidation about this father's request, Ramon Alonzo complies and seeks out the magician, who gladly agrees to take him on as an apprentice.ĭuring his first night in the magician's vast and shadowy house, Ramon Alonzo is visited by the elderly charwoman who warns him about the terrible prices the magician exacts. The Lord is in need of gold for a dowry for his daughter, Mirandola, and he decides that Ramon Alonzo is to seek out a magician of whom he knows and to learn how to transmute metal into gold. ![]() Set in the Golden Age of a mythical medieval Spain, The Charwoman's Shadow is the story of Ramon Alonzo, the son of the Lord of the Tower and Rocky Forest. Reading James Stoddard's The High House inspired me to seek out some of the masters of fantasy who inspired Stoddard, and the first book I reached for was The Charwoman's Shadow by Lord Dunsany. Rambles.NET: Lord Dunsany, The Charwoman's Shadow Lord Dunsany, ![]()
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