For the most part, the story is a high fantasy in which three chiefs of Demonland—Lord Juss, Spitfire, and Brandoch Daha—embark on a heroic quest to rescue the fourth lord from his imprisonment in the mountains of Impland. However, at the end, Queen Sophonisba undertakes a resolution to the final problem that could well involve time travel.
Michael Main
Lord, it is an Ambassador from Witchland and his train. He craveth present audience."

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  1. The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Jonathan Cape, 1922).
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  3. alternate title.
    The Dragon Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Leaves of Gold, June 2013).
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  1. Dutch.
    De worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Contact, 1976).
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Helen Knopper
  3. French.
    Le serpent Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison, 2 vols. (Callidor, December 2017 and December 2018).
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Patrick Marcel
  5. German.
    Der Wurm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Heyne, September 1981).
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Reinhard Heinz
  7. German.
    Der Wurm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Bastei Lübbe, 1993).
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Helmut W. Pesch