- Flying-machines, Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn't commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Eoin Colfer
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 414
- Publisher
- Puffin, Disney-Hyperion, W.A.B
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, cat, Dutch, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781423107514
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Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen") is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series. ([source][1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin_Colfer
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