- Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Swine, Celtic Mythology
Taran is bored with his Assistant Pig-Keeper duties, even though his charge is none other than Hen Wen, Prydain's only oracular pig. He'd rather be doing something more heroic, like making swords and learning to use them.
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Classical in form, earnest, epic and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Lloyd Alexander
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Mammoth, Artemis Yayinlari, Alfaguara
- Editions
- 53
- Language
- Polish, tur, heb, und
- ISBN
- 9780440910695
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“Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.”
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