- Fantasy, Adventure and adventurers, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction
When his small mountains country goes to war with the powerful nation of Attolia, Eugenides the thief is faced with his greatest challenge. He must steal a man, he must steal a queen, and he must steal peace.But his greatest triumph-as well as his greatest loss-can only come if he succeeds in capturing something the Queen of Attolia may have sacrificed long ago.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Megan Whalen Turner
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 362
- Publisher
- Eos, Harpercollins Pub Ltd, Greenwillow Books
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781538428429
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“HE WAS ASLEEP, but woke at the sound of the key turning in the lock.”
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