The Landslide, Gilbert Stephen

The story has many delicious moments. - The Guardian

Rich in exciting and imaginative incidents ... the most enticing romance I have read for a long time ... a good book, and an exceptionally pleasant one. - Northern Whig and Belfast Post

It is brilliant, for in over 200 pages the author carries on the situation without seeming to be telling anything that he has not actually seen.... H.G. Wells ... is nowhere its equal. It is a strange and satisfying book. - Dublin Review

An original and graceful novel ... has a salty freshness, a shining of youth. - John OLondons

Will my poor book ever be read by anyone? It is about a dragon and a sea serpent, and a kind of prehistoric dog and an old man and a boy and a priest. I sent it to a publisher last July and it has been lost ever since. I know it is good ... It is unlike any story that has ever been written before. Thus lamented Stephen Gilbert, and when a copy of the manuscript was finally found and published in 1943, the critics agreed: The Landslide was a fresh and original fantasy story, and its author was hailed as an exciting new voice in modern Irish fiction.