Elric Intégrale 3
Paris: Pocket, 2015 (February) trade-sized paperback;
title translates as “Full Elric 3”;
original price: unknown (“catégorie 14”?);
629 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-2-266-24083-36;
cover artist: Jean Bastide.
Elric of Melniboné — proud prince of ruins, kinslayer — call him what you will. He remains, together with maybe Jerry Cornelius, Moorcock’s most enduring, if not always most endearing, character…
Elric Intégrale 3 is a French omnibus — see below — and this combined-title edition is unique, with no English-language equivalent.
Contents:-
p. 9: L’Épée Noire (The Bane Of The Black Sword) translated by Franck Straschitz;
p. 185: Stormbringer translated by Straschitz;
p. 451: Elric À La Fin Des Temps (Elric At The End Of Time) translated by E.C.L. Meistermann, comprising (not on contents page):-
p. 455: Introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 451: ‘Elric À La Fin Des Temps’ (‘Elric At The End Of Time’);
p. 515: ‘Le Dernier Enchantement’ (‘The Last Enchantment’);
p. 533: ‘Sojan’;
p. 623: ‘La Chose De Pierre: Conte De Parties Étrangères’ (‘The Stone Thing: A Tale Of Strange Parts’).
N.B. The Sojan title above is a composite one, incorporating many episodes as originally appeared in Tarzan Adventures (q.v.) in 1957/’58.
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