Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament by John Crowley; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator John Crowley

Edgewood—which is not found on any map—is many houses, all put inside each other or across each other. It’s filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment; the further in you go, the bigger it gets.

Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, travels from the City on foot to Edgewood, her family home. There he finds himself on the magical border of an otherworld.

Crowley’s work has a special alchemy—mixing the world we know with an imagined world that seems more true and real. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Little, Big is elegant, sensual, funny, and unforgettable. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss, of impossible things and unshakable destinies, and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

“A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

“Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.”—Peter Straub, award-winning horror fiction author

“Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvelous magic-realist family chronicle.”—Washington Post

“One of the most underrated classics of recent years…Little, Big is one of those sprawling, dreamlike fantasy novels that has very British sensibilities but, paradoxically, it takes the Americans to do really well.”—Guardian (London)

“John Crowley writes sentences of such coruscating magnificence that the rest of the English language has fallen in love with them. I once knew an adverbial clause who was so infatuated with the linguistic beauty of Little, Big that the poor creature pined away into a comma.”—James Morrow, World Fantasy Award–winning author

“One of my favorite works of modern fantasy, Little, Big, is an amazing tale told in an amazing way. Reading it I felt as if I were watching a high-wire artist: one slip and he would fall into the dreadful net of Twee. Yet Crowley never slips, not upon a single word, and the book grows more powerful with every page.”—Katharine Kerr, bestselling author

John Crowley is an American writer who has also worked in television and documentary films. His fantasy and science fiction have established him as a major voice in imaginative writing. His other novels include The Deep, Engine Summer, and Ægypt.