![]() ![]() Early in the process, he conceives of writing a novel which, it is clear, would be Ægypt his ruminations on that novel describe the structure of the novel he is in. Moffett is trained as a historian, and is under contract to write a popular history covering hermetical themes. Another manuscript, left unfinished by its author Fellowes Kraft and discovered by Moffett, is an historical fiction that follows the briefly intersecting adventures of Italian heretic Giordano Bruno and of British occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley. ![]() ![]() The four volumes deal with Moffett's real and dream life in the United States in 1977 (and, in an extended coda, into the early 1980s) with the narrative of the manuscript he is preparing for publication. World Fantasy Award nominee, 1988 Arthur C. Originally published in 1987 as Ægypt, despite Crowley's objections. ![]() The series describes the life and work of Pierce Moffett, a history professor who prepares a manuscript for publication even as it prepares him for some as-yet unknown destiny, all set amidst strange and subtle Hermetic manipulations among the Faraway Hills at the border of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Ægypt is a fantasy tetralogy written by American author John Crowley. For the first volume of the series once titled Ægypt or Aegypt, see The Solitudes (novel). For the country sometimes spelt Ægypt or Aegypt, see Egypt. ![]()
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