Like some wild plants, it has a following that loves its exotic flavor, but it's not an easily digestible read (though it is short).It's worth approaching the book knowing that the author works from a Victorian conception of faerie - the fey are appealing, even seductive, but also capricious and cruel. Taken at face value, the story starts slowly, but becomes more compelling from half-way through, when it falls into a conventional narrative with heroes, villains, and a reason to care about the outcome. The story can be read (with some risk of sucking the life from it) as an allegory of the ways the conscious mind tries to suppress the unconscious, with disastrous results. With uneven and shifting tones, the book tells the story of the bourgeois mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, who must unmask a conspiracy by the world of faerie to infiltrate his stiff, modern, and complacent capital city. First published in 1926 but often out of print, this tale is relatively obscure for similar reasons.
After sampling many, I realized that by and large (with some exceptions), the plants we have domesticated taste better and are a lot less work to prepare, and that's why the wild plants have stayed wild.
Years ago, I was interested in learning about edible wild plants from Southeastern (U.S.) forests.
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