The Ship Of Ishtar Illustrated [Merritt, Abraham] on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ship Of Ishtar Illustrated. · The Ship Of Ishtar (Memorial Edition) by A. Merritt (Borden Publishing Company, ). With five full-page black white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. The text of this edition follows the preferable text of the six-part serial published in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 8 November December the Putnam text was abridged. The hero, John Kenton, a veteran of the first world war, is transported to a ship divided into two warring factions each representing a Babylonian God--Ishtar, Goddess of Love, and Nergal, God of the Underworld. The device through which Kenton is transported is an ancient artifact shipped to him from an archeological dig, a model of the ship.
"In The Ship of Ishtar, (Merritt's) best novel, a man travels into a magical world and falls in love with the beautiful female captain of the ship of Ishtar; the highly coloured descriptive passages of this novel still have a strong effect on readers." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, eds. Clute and Nicholls, , p. The Ship of Ishtar tells the story of Kenton, who receives a mysterious ancient Babylonian artifact, which he discovers contains an incredibly detailed model of a ship. A dizzy spell casts him onto the deck of the ship, which becomes a full-sized vessel sailing an eternal sea. At one end is Sharane the assistant priestess of Ishtar and her. As mentioned, while Putnam's published the first hardcover edition of The Ship of Ishtar in , Merritt's preferred text would not see print in hardcover until the Borden Memorial Edition in Merritt's widow, Eleanor, signed a contract with Borden on J for that edition, which called for a $ advance.
The Ship Of Ishtar (Memorial Edition) by A. Merritt (Borden Publishing Company, ). With five full-page black white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. The text of this edition follows the preferable text of the six-part serial published in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 8 November December the Putnam text was abridged. Title: The Ship of Ishtar Author: Abraham Merritt * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No.: bltadwin.ru Language: English Date first posted: Jun Most recent update: May This eBook was produced by Richard Scott and Colin Choat, and updated by Roy Glashan. The Ship of Ishtar is a fantasy novel by American writer A. Merritt. Originally published as a magazine serial in , it has appeared in book form innumerable times. The novel depicts a modern archaeologist who has to intervene in an eternal conflict between the deities Ishtar and Nergal. In the novel, the deities have possessed the bodies of their human priests.
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