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The Complete Compleat Enchanter

1989, US, Baen Books ISBN 0-671-69809-5, Pub date March 1989, Paperback as The Complete Compleat Enchanter with a preface by David Drake

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The first US edition appeared under the title The Complete Compleat Enchanter, and replaces the foreword with a preface by David Drake.

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2000, UK, Orion Books ISBN 1-85798-757-8, Pub date October 2000, Paperback as The Compleat Enchanter, no introduction, volume 10 of the Fantasy Masterworks series

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Following publication of The Complete Compleat Enchanter, the Harold Shea series was continued by de Camp in partnership with Christopher Stasheff and other authors in the anthologies The Enchanter Reborn and The Exotic Enchanter.

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Orion Books published an edition in the UK under the title The Compleat Enchanter in 2000 as volume 10 of their Fantasy Masterworks series.

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The five stories collected in The Complete Compleat Enchanter explore the worlds of Norse mythology in "The Roaring Trumpet," Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in "The Mathematics of Magic," Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (with a brief stop in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan) in "The Castle of Iron," the Kalevala in "The Wall of Serpents," and Irish mythology in "The Green Magician."

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