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"You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine."In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood.Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Matthew Skelton
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 408
- Publisher
- Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Puffin Books, Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780385734561
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