The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley
Two children battle Evil itself in this fantasy classic. "Marvelously exciting . . . the story is ferocious and deeply felt."--New Statesman "A piece of marvelously sustained invention. . . . A fine, new-mint book with echoes in it from the best of the old."--(London) Times Literary Supplement
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Two children battle Evil itself in this fantasy classic. "Marvelously exciting . . . the story is ferocious and deeply felt."--New Statesman "A piece of marvelously sustained invention. . . . A fine, new-mint book with echoes in it from the best of the old."--(London) Times Literary Supplement
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780152017668 (0152017666)
ASIN: 0152017666
Publish date: 1998-04-15
Publisher: Sandpiper
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mythology,
Fiction
bookshelves: published-1960, fradio, autumn-2011, play-dramatisation, radio-4, witches-and-wizards, fantasy, adventure, kiddlewinks, britain-england, magicians, mythology Recommended for: Brazilliant Laura Read from November 17 to 19, 2011 Saturday play r4blurb - Say 'Alderley Edge' to a lot of...
My full review of this book and the sequel, Moon of Gomrath, is now available at the Sleeping Hedgehog.In fact, there are a lot of reviews there regarding Garner's work, so just check out this overview post instead of looking at this specific review. You'll get there in the end. Here you go: http://...
Saturday play r4blurb - Say 'Alderley Edge' to a lot of people and they'll think of footballers with their wives, living in grand mansions. But for a great many the words will conjure up wizards and a hundred knights sleeping in a cave for thousands of years. Alan Garner used a local legend as the s...
I know I read this book as a child but I don't remember anything in it. Perhaps I read books a little fast as a child, inhabiting each one and passing to the next without taking much with me? But this book doesn't have a heap of emotional resonance and the ending, after the detailed action, seems ab...
Okay, a pair of kids are sent to the countryside of Cheshire for six months, a classic British fantasy set-up. In the caves under the hills there's an ancient army of knights, waiting to fight and defeat evil. Okay. I'm with them so far. But then there are dwarves, and one of them says, "By the ...
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