- Magic, Fiction, Fantasy, Griffins
Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards' University where she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.
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Classical in form, plot-driven, resolved and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, HarperTrophy, Gollancz
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060293116
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“NOTHING was going right with the Wizards' University.”
A British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
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