.The Wonderful Volume I

Edouard Brasey is known for his works with attraction to all that is fantasy, magic and mythology. Encyclopedia wonderful with three volumes is dailleurs moon of his major works. The first volume concerns only 'the lights of peoples "but do not be misled by the title, it does not necessarily comes to benevolent people. Therefore, some might wonder logic lintitulé or if the author does not sest wrong classification since the third book was precisely to "the peoples of the shadow." In reality, categorization, if it may seem disconcerting dun first glance appears quite relevant after comparison of the summaries of two books.

Divided into five parts, as found in this first volume: the air of the peoples with angels, vampires, sylphs, jinn (etc.), the peoples of the forest with the centaurs, fairies, dryads, the fauna (etc.), the peoples of water with sirens, nymphs, wyverns, newts (etc.), the peoples of the earth with the gnomes, pygmies, red caps, the goblins (etc.) the people of the hills with goblins, pixies, gremlins (etc.). If I make reference to the most iconic creatures, he nen remains that the book abounds other beings far less illustrious and equally interesting. It must nevertheless be said, if this encyclopedia runs various mythologies, but it remains far from being exhaustive.

Still, it is a good edition with a description for each people and a very neat layout (as usual in Le Pré aux Clercs editions) accompanied various dillustrations danciens as tables or paintings & beautiful drawings Sandrine Gestin (including dailleurs jinvite those who do not know to check out his work by lintermédiaire its individual books).