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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.
A mechanical street map, a deserted slum, a church in ruins, and a football. Four ordinary things lead the Watson children on an extraordinary adventure to a magical land called Elidor.
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Jun 19, 2018 · From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service. Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness.
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Aug 2, 2010 · While exploring a church that is being razed in a Manchester slum, four English children are drawn into another world where they are compelled to combat the evil power which grips most of the land. First published in 1965 by William Collins Sons. Access-restricted-item.
Jan 1, 1970 · The four Watson children are wandering about in the slums of the city. They see a fiddler who leads them into the magical land of Elidor. Now they must embark on a dangerous mission to protect four ancient treasures. As forces of evil begin to cross over into our world, they start to see that they were in for more than they expected.
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Elidor is a fast-paced adventure story containing plenty of tension, conflict, and danger, as well as a unicorn, treasures, magic spells, and chase scenes. The reader must remain alert because ...
Sep 17, 2020 · Elidor (Armada Lions, 1974). Cover artist unknown. This stark combination of mythic resonance and icy bleakness makes Elidor one of the strongest – and most ruthless – fantasy novels I’ve ever read, and its uncompromising honesty is uncommon in any book, much less one that is supposedly for children, where sugar-coating is often the rule ...
