- Fantasy, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Space and time
The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light.
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- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Susan Cooper
- First published
- April 5, 1979
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Red Fox, Bodley Head, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Swedish, German, nor, und
- ISBN
- 9780689849183
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Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as the Arthurian legends, and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. [Wikipedia]
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