Elidor

Book Details

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Author(s):

Alan Garner

First Pub:

1965

Genre(s):

Fantasy

First Read:

2022

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 20

1 - Thursday's Child

2 - Cloth of Gold

3 - Dead Loss

4 - Malebron

5 - The Mound of Vandwy

6 - The Lay of the Starved Fool

7 - Corporation Property

8 - The Deep End

9 - Stat

10 - Choke

11 - The Last Spadeful

12 - The Letterbox

13 - "Silent Night"

14 - The High Place

15 - Planchette

16 - The Fix

17 - Spear-edge and Shield-rim

18 - The Paddy

19 - The Wasteland

20 - The Song of Findhorn

Internal ID:

2646

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

For J. H.

First Sentence:

"All right", said Nicholas.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

The children were alone with the broken windows of a slum.

Comments:

No comments on file

Extract not on file

Added: 01-Dec-2019

Last Updated: 11-Apr-2023

12-Jun-1981

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

12-Jun-1981

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.95

Pages*:

145

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 4 Feb 2022 - 7 Feb 2022

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1922

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-29042-9

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-29042-7

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Laurence Schwinger - Cover Artist

THE SHADOWS OF
MAGIC

While exploring a bombed and ruined city slum, Roland and his companions are drawn into the twilight realm of Elidor. There, from Malebron the King, they learn that an evil power threatens his land and that their entry into Elidor has unleashed the Darkness as foretold by the prophecies.

The web of fate has been woven, and they are incapable of escaping the mysterious evil power that now threatens them, as well as Elidor...

Alan Garner, winner of both the prestigious Carnegie Medal and The Guardian Award, is a master of fantasy. Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and adored by readers everywhere. Garner's haunting tales are available from Del Rey Books:
ELIDOR • THE OWL SERVICE • THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN • THE MOON OF GOMRATH

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First published in 1965 by William Collins Son & Company, London and Glasgow
First Ballantine Books Edition: July 1981

12-Jun-1981
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

Alan Garner
Birth: 17 Oct 1934 Congleton, Cheshire, England, UK

Notes:

Alan Garner was born in Congleton, Cheshire October, 17, 1934. He went to school at Alderley Edge Primary School and Manchester Grammar School and then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He left before he completed his degree. At Oxford he met both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. He began his first novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at twenty-two.

Alan Garner continues to live in Cheshire where he continues to write. He suffers from manic depression. He has three children from his first marriage: Ellen, Adam and Katherine. He is married to Griselda, his second wife who is a teacher, and they have two children: Joseph and Elizabeth.

He won the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, for The Owl Service and was the first author to win both awards for one book. He won the Phoenix Award for The Stone Book Quartet.

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