Kingdoms of Elfin

Kingdoms of Elfin
Author	Sylvia Townsend Warner
Illustrator	Anita Karl
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	1977
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN	978-0670413508

Kingdoms of Elfin is a short story collection by Sylvia Townsend Warner, published in 1977, a year before her death. The stories are an interconnected series of satirical fantasy stories detailing the manners of the fairy courts of Europe. It was Warner's last published work.

The stories range across various traditional lands of Europe and beyond, including Brocéliande in Brittany, Elfhame in Scotland, Mynydd Prescelly in Wales, the Forest of Arden and Bury St. Edmunds in England, and as far away as the Peris of Persia.

Contents

The collection includes sixteen stories, fourteen of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. Endpaper maps are by Anita Karl.

• "The one and the other"
• "The five black swans"
• "Elphenor and Weasel"
• "The blameless trianle"
• "The revolt at Brocéliande"
• "The mortal milk"
• "Beliard"
• "Visitors to a castle"
• "The power of cookery"
• "Winged creatures"
• "The search for an ancestress"
• "The climate of exile"
• "The late Sir Glamie"
• "Castor and Pollux"
• "The occupation"
• "Foxcastle"