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Part folklore, part adventure and part fantasy, Alan Garners Elidor is a modern childrens classic. When Roland opens a door in a derelict church, he unleashes the wonders of Elidor and the grave challenges that this troubled world presents. Drawing on Welsh, Irish and English mythology, the book chronicles the trials and hardships of a group of young teenagers as they attempt to fulfill a prophecy from another world, and fight a terrible evil.
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Alan Garner was born and still lives in Cheshire, an area which has had a profound effect on his writing and provided the seed of many ideas worked out in his books. His fourth book, `The Owl Service' brought Alan Garner to everyone's attention. It won two important literary prizes - The Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal - and was made into a serial by Granada Television. It has established itself as a classic and Alan Garner as a writer of great distinction.
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When the four Watson children go into a ruined church in a deserted neighborhood in Manchester, England, they enter the strange world of Elidor, a land being overrun by an evil power. The children reluctantly become the guardians of Elidor's treasures--a sword, a stone, a spear, and a cauldron--and return with them to their twentieth-century world. Now the Watsons, as well as Elidor, are threatened. Garard Green, a seasoned audiobook narrator, gives the children convincing childlike voices and varies tone and phrasing to effectively communicate their emotions, as well as their words. As the Watsons courageously fight off the evil that so relentlessly pursues them, Green makes the unbelievable seem all too believable, wrapping the listener in the magical, sinister atmosphere of Garner's well-crafted fantasy. C.R.A. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date1965
- ISBN 10 0001842021
- ISBN 13 9780001842021
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Charles Keeping (Colour dustwrapper illustration, and interior black and white illustrations) (illustrator). First Edition. Eleventh impression of the true first edition, with revised dustwrapper design. The author's third book. ***Colour dustwrapper illustration by Charles Keeping. Black and white illustrations in the text also by Charles Keeping. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Slight crease to the top edge of the front board near the spine. Corners sharp. No foxing to the page block edges, but there is a light stain to the fore-edge - not affecting the interior pages. Internally also very good, with a school prize label pasted on the front free endpaper - this has caused a bit of wrinkling to the paper. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Paper stock tanned due to the cheap paper stock used by some publishers at this time. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that is unpriced. The dustwrapper is complete with no creases or tears, just very light edge rubbing. No fading even to the colours on the spine. The back panel is also very clean, despite having a white background. Dustwrapper bright. ***215mm x 142mm. 160 pages. ***'Elidor was a runner-up in 1965 for the Library Association's annual Carnegie Medal for "an outstanding book for children" which Alan Garner won with his subsequent book "The Owl Service" in 1968.' ***'Mr Garner's writing is extraordinarily powerful. Fear, urgency and courage ride the pages like the unicorn who occupies so much of the second half of the book.' - Times Educational supplement (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***An eleventh impression of the true first edition of Alan Garner's third novel, complete in its original attractive colour-illustrated dustwrapper, in very nice condition. Many of these hardback editions from the period went to libraries, and relatively few have survived in such nice condition. Of interest to collectors of Alan Garner and classic twentieth century literary children's books. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 8489
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