- Adventure stories, Brothers and sisters, Cornwall (England : County ), Fantasy
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drews put their very lives in peril. This is the first volume of Susan Cooper's brilliant and absorbing fantasy sequence known as The Dark Is Rising.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Susan Cooper
- First published
- May 1988
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Bodley Head, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 50
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780606042932
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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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