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Stardust

Title:

Stardust

Author:

Gaiman, Neil.

ISBN:

9780755322824

Personal Author:

Gaiman, Neil.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

Originally published in Great Britain in 1999 by Headline Book Publishing.

"Headline review"--Spine.

Abstract:

In the English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian era, life moves at a leisurely pace. In the town of Wall, so named for an imposing stone barrier that divides the village from an adjacent meadow, armed sentries guard the sole gap to keep the curious from wandering through. Only once every nine years do they relax their vigil when a market fair unlike any other comes to the meadow. In Wall, young Tristan Thorn falls in love with the cold and distant Victoria Forester. He vows to retrieve a fallen star for Victoria, crosses the ancient wall, and enters a world strange beyond imagining.

Subject Term:

Young men -- Fiction.

Courtship -- Fiction.

Meteors -- Fiction.

Courtship. (OCoLC)fst00881873

Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815

Meteors. (OCoLC)fst01018532

Young men. (OCoLC)fst01183263

Geographic Term:

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

England. (OCoLC)fst01219920

Genre:

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

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Summary

A FAIRY TALE FOR EVERYONE.

'Beyond all the borders that divide us, there is a place of infinite possibilities and pure magic. I think of Neil Gaiman as a writer who wears the key to that land around his neck - the key to Storyland' ELIF SHAFAK

'Gaiman describes the indescribable' SUSANNA CLARKE

'A tonic for these turbulent times' IRISH TIMES

THE ACCLAIMED, ENCHANTING FILM ADAPTATION STARS ROBERT DE NIRO, CLAIRE DANES, RUPERT EVERETT, MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND MANY MORE FAVOURITES...

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'I wanted to write a story that would feel, to the reader, like something he or she had always known' NEIL GAIMAN

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At the dawn of the Victorian era, life moves leisurely in the sleepy village of Wall.

Young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and, to win her love, vows to bring her a star they see fall from the night sky.

It is an oath that sends him over the town's ancient wall and into the mysterious land of Faerie - a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining . . .

NEIL GAIMAN.
W ITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.

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**Includes 'Wall, A Prologue', reading-group discussion questions and an interview with Neil Gaiman**