The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

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Author(s):

Alan Garner

First Pub:

1960

Genre(s):

Fantasy

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

See 24

The Legend of Alderley

Part One

1 - Highmost Redhanbey

2 - The Edge

3 - Maggot-bred of Ymir

4 - The Fundindelve

5 - Miching Mallecho

6 - A Ring of Stones

7 - Fenodyree

Part Two

8 - Mist Over Llyn-dhu

9 - St. Mary's Clyffe

10 - Plankshaft

11 - Prince of the Huldrafolk

12 - In the Cave of the Svartmoot

13 - "Where No Svart Will Ever Tread"

14 - The Earldelving

15 - A Stromkarl Sings

16 - The Wood of Radnor

17 - Mara

18 - Angharad Goldenhand

19 - Gaberlunzie

20 - Shuttlingslow

21 - The Headless Cross

Internal ID:

2647

Series:

The Moon of Gomrath ->

Tales of the Alderley*

#1 of 3

Tales of the Alderley*

A series fantasy of books by Alan Garner.

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1) The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
2) The Moon of Gomrath
3) Boneland

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Dedication:

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First Sentence:

At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the hill of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

And here is an end of it.

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Added: 01-Dec-2019

Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

Publications

12-Aug-1981

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

12-Aug-1981

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.95

Pages*:

198

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1923

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-29043-7

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-29043-4

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Laurence Schwinger - Cover Artist

THE DAY
THE LEGENDS APPEARED

Goblins and witches roamed the night; an immortal wizard waited in a cavern of jewels and sleeping warriors; a silent sorcerer lurked beneath a black lake--all sought Firefrost, the lost weirdstone that contained the magic to win an ages-long war of Good and Evil.

Susan and her brother Colin, curious about the legends they had heard of the weirdstone, ventured into the gloomy woods of an isolated village in Cheshire, only to become the quarry of a sorcerous chase--from the heights of the mysterious Edge to the haunted depths of the earth, as the quiet countryside became a fantastic landscape of legends... and nightmares.

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

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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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