Publisher: Bantam Books Fantasy Copyright: 1981 Publication date: Oct 1983 Currently out of print

Somewhere beyond the City, at the edge of a wild wood, sits a house on the border between Here and There, a place where Somehow reality and fantasy can intertwine and mortals can believe in fairies.

Sometime in our age, a young man in love comes here to wed, and enters a family whose Tale reaches backward and forward a hundred years, from the sunlit summers of a gentler time, to the last dark days of this century.

--Description on back of book

Cover Blurbs:

"The best fantasy novel ever." -- Rod Sterling's The Twilight Zone Magazine

"Little, Big is the kind of book around which cults are formed, and rightly so. There's magic here." -- Los Angeles Examiner

"Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvelous magic-realist family chronicle." -- Washington Post Book Review

"This book is indescribable: A splendid madness, or a delightful sanity, or both. A book as unique in its own way as Islandia or A Voyage to Arcturus. Persons who enter this book are advised that they will leave it a different size than when they came in." -- Ursula K. LeGuin

"An original in every sense... A Fantasy so extraordinarily well told that it escapes easy categorization...The writing is simple and pure; it is the window through which we watch the amazing goings on inside... Little, Big raises questions about reality. It finds rings within rings, worlds within worlds, lives within lives. Crowley makes us believe in a trout's wisdom, the voice of a flame." -- John Gabree, Newsday

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