- Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Fantasy fiction
Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney.
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Classical in form, resolved, contemporary and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Knaur Taschenbuch, Tandem Library, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9783426522905
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“"Will you all be quiet!" snapped High Chancellor Querida.”
A British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
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