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    Kenyan's Lamp (Book Five of the Hagenspan Chronicles)

    By Robert W. Tompkins

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    Hagenspan was a mythic land that once existed in our own world--nearest estimates place it somewhere in the north Atlantic, perhaps during the Middle Ages. Apparently one of the last bastions for creatures from the Old World, its shores were haunted by memories of dwarfs and fairies, kobolds and trolls, giants and dragons. The tales of Hagenspan recount the days when humankind had nearly, but not quite, forgotten those other folk, who were diminishing as it had been decreed. The Hagenspan Chronicles are a bittersweet recounting of the world that once was; sometimes whimsical, sometimes heroic, sometimes heart-rending.

    Kenyan’s Lamp is the fifth story in the Hagenspan Chronicles, but you don’t need to have read the first four to enjoy this one. It’s a stand-alone novel, a fairy tale in the truest sense of the words, and the hero of the story is heroic in a way that most of us can relate to--that is, his endurance of repeated failure. Kenyan is a young man whose parents have died, and he is employed in the service of the lord of his realm. His early misadventures include a failed romance with a scheming girl, an encounter with mocking pirates who strip him of all his belongings, an unlikely appearance before the king of the land, and a quest into the land of the fairies to retrieve something he cannot possibly obtain. How he overcomes his adversity and ends up with more than a modicum of dignity provides a tale that is not only enjoyable, but actually inspiring.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert W. Tompkins
    Release dateOct 12, 2018
    ISBN9780463769492
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    Kenyan's Lamp (Book Five of the Hagenspan Chronicles)
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    Robert W. Tompkins

    Robert W. Tompkins has been called "fantasy's best kept secret." He is the author of The Hagenspan Chronicles, as well as a couple of non-fiction books. He was born in 1959 in upstate New York, where he has lived most of his life. He wrote over four hundred songs in his youth, and turned to fiction around the beginning of the current century. He pastored a small rural congregation for five years, and is now retired from most things due to early-onset Parkinson's Disease. However, he does continue writing, and is currently beginning work on the tenth book in the Hagenspan series.

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