In seventeenth-century Germany a boy desperately wants to escape from a school for Black Magic where he is held captive by demonic force
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Otfried Preußler
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 171
- Publisher
- Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Kalʹvarija
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- German, ukr
- ISBN
- 9789666631964
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About Otfried Preußler · 1923–2013
deutscher Schriftsteller, Kinderbuchautor (*20 October 1923 - †18 February 2013) [German writer, children's book author]
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