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A Tale of True Love, Enterprise, and Progress, in the Arthurian and Ad-Atomic Ages
The medieval world invades the modern in this enchanting tale of Arthurian princesses and enchantors, modern-day advertising agency personnel, magic mirrors, and television.
An enchantor named Malgrim has given Princess Melicent of Camelot a magic mirror in which she can see the face of anyone who thinks of her. Meanwhile, in the twentieth century, Sam Penty, dreaming up a new campaign for his ad agency's stocking account, thinks of using an illustration of an Arthurian princess. Naturally, Melicent sees Sam's face in her mirror and falls in love with him.
Then Malgrim and his uncle, rivals in the enchanting game, start switching the Arthurian characters and the agency people back and forth between present and past, with the result that Melicent finds herself on a television program, and Sam lands smack in the middle of a fight with a Red Knight. After many amusing twists and turns everything finally gets sorted out, and the two enchantors end up as members of the advertising agency board of directors.
This very funny short novel marks Priestley's entry into a new field. The famous author rises to the occasion superbly, proving that he can be just as witty as Mark Twain was in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
"No savage satirical blows are struck in The Thirty-First Of June; the laughter is kind, the irony gentle. But when the medieval world invades the modern, it becomes a splendid foil for the absurdities of some favourite Priestley windmills."
London Observer