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The Twilight of Magic

Hugh Lofting

First published 1930
Publisher Jonathan Cape
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages 285


"The prime of Lofting's active career lasted only a decade, and during that period he wrote only one other fantasy, The Twilight of Magic (1930), a slightly moralistic tale set in a land-of-fable medieval Europe." --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, biographical entry by John Clute (alluding to the Doctor Dolittle series)

Kirkus Reviews (above) covered the 1967 US ed. as "two sequences", featuring "Giles as a boy of nine" and "Giles as a young man", the first a "childhood fantasy" and the complex second "an evocation of a medieval court ...". Either way, a probable disappointment to Dolittle fans.

First British edition.

Year Reviewer Publication
1994 Carolyn Cushman Locus, #396 January 1994

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Twilight of Magic Cover 1930 Frederick A. Stokes Company Hardcover Novel Lois Lenski vi+303
The Twilight of Magic 1958 Jonathan Cape Hardcover Novel 285
The Twilight of Magic Cover 1967 Jonathan Cape Hardcover Novel 285
The Twilight of Magic Cover 1967 J. B. Lippincott Hardcover Novel xii+303
The Twilight of Magic Cover 1993 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Hardcover Novel Tatsuro Kiuchi viii+243
The Twilight of Magic Cover 2019 Reading Essentials eBook Novel