Elidor
Novel by Alan Garner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elidor is a children's fantasy novel by the British author Alan Garner, published by Collins in 1965. Set primarily in modern Manchester, it features four English children who enter a fantasy world, fulfill a quest there, and return to find that the enemy has followed them into our world. Translations have been published in nine languages[2] and it has been adapted for television and radio.
Author | Alan Garner |
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Illustrator | Charles Keeping |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's fantasy novel |
Publisher | William Collins, Sons |
Publication date | 1965 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 159 pp (first edition) |
OCLC | 8060803 |
LC Class | PZ7.G18417 El[1] |
The story concerns the adventures of a group of children as they struggle to hold back a terrible darkness by fulfilling a prophecy from another world. The setting moves to and from the world of Elidor, and the city of Manchester and parts of northern Cheshire in the real world.[3][4]
Like many of Garner's books, the emphasis of the narrative is on the hardships, cost and practicalities of the choices and responsibilities that the protagonists face.