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Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree [five volumes, complete]
by Cooper, Susan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Folio Society, 2011. Epic fantasy for young adults, of the battle between Good & Evil in England, Cornwall & Wales, based partly on ancient Anglo-Saxon lore; winner of a Newbery Medal and two Tir na n'Og awards. Includes new prefaces by the author for each book: in one, she credits her Oxford professors C. S. Lewis & J. R. R. Tolkien for halting their English Literature syllabus at 1832, steeping their students in the old literature of the Islands, and her experiences as a child during the Blitz for the Good versus Evil theme. Attractively bound, the first Folio printings, as pictured: Over Sea was published in 2011, the others in 2012. Regrettably, several corners are badly bumped - only Dark is Rising is unaffected, though the bump to Silver on the Tree is minor. Light wear to books otherwise, clean & unmarked; slipcases likewise bumped, with minor scuffs. Scarce as a set. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this set of books will be required; please inquire for an accurate quote. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Laura Carlin. Octavo. Set.
Synopsis
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drews put their very lives in peril. This is the first volume of Susan Cooper's brilliant and absorbing fantasy sequence known as The Dark Is Rising.
Reviews
On Jan 16 2014, a reader said:
This is a sort of love story, but not exactly. It tells us about a Princess whose father has been kicked out of his kingdom and adopted by the US. The girl starts out very socially conscious. Then she meets her true love at a conference in Maui, and everything else goes by the wayside. This true love is not a criminal, as he explains to her, but an outlaw. Due to the efforts of a CIA spy, he is thrown in prison for a couple of years. The princess decides to put herself in solitary confinement, just like her lover, and retires to the attic with a cot, a chamber pot, and a pack of camel cigarettes, which she doesn’t smoke. As the word gets out that she is doing this, there are a lot of copy cats, and her lover, in irritation, writes her a nasty letter about it. This has the effect of making her decide she is no longer in love with him, and she makes the choice to marry an Arab King instead. Meanwhile, her study of the Camel pack has convinced her that she must know more about the effects of pyramids, so she has the King build her one as a wedding present. The King, no dummy, alerts all other Arab countries that her lover is a bad guy, to be shot on sight. For a while it appears that the Woodpecker (her lover) has been caught and killed. Then, on the night before her wedding, while she is checking out the newly finished pyramid, the Woodpecker appears alive. She is overjoyed, and her fiancé sees her hugging her former lover in the pyramid; so he locks them in and explains to the world that she has been kidnapped by a terrorist gang. Luckily, the cake and champagne for her wedding the next day was already in place, and they subsist on this for about a month. Then the Princess decides to use her lover’s dynamite (which he is never without) to blow open the door, assuming this will kill them both.
This book enlightens us on a number of fronts: we learn the difference between a criminal and an outlaw; we examine the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism; and we learn a lot about the problem of redheads and the pyramids. Meanwhile, we flirt briefly with feminism, ecology, racism, and a lot of other “isms”. Robbins is always unique in his combination of philosophy and comedy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0084os
- Title
- Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree [five volumes, complete]
- Author
- Cooper, Susan
- Illustrator
- Laura Carlin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Literature, Illustrated Books, Fantasy, Arthur, Grail, Mythology, Folklore, Wales
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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