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The versatile Neil Gaiman is best known for scripting upmarket graphic novels, most famously the lengthy Sandman cycle. Stardust was a joint project with artist Charles Vess, a short novel of fairyland enriched by at least one sumptuous painting on every page. This edition contains only the (slightly rewritten) text, alas. Gaiman's story looks back to days before commercial genre fantasy, to Lord Dunsany's and Hope Mirrlees's visions of Faerie as a misty country which is at the same time temptingly close and "over the hills and far away". The simple tale is new but has a twice-told familiarity, crafted like a mosaic from many traditional elements. Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest. Stardust is by turns knowing, poetic, comic and grisly and exudes considerable charm. If only we had those full-colour Vess paintings too. --David LangfordRead More

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  • Amazon

    A breathtaking and magical novel from a master storyteller

  • Foyles

    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 TIMESTHE ACCLAIMED, ENCHANTING FILM ADAPTATION STARS ROBERT DE NIRO, CLAIRE DANES, RUPERT EVERETT, MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND MANY MORE FAVOURITES...---'I wanted to write a story that would feel, to the reader, like something he or she had always known' NEIL GAIMAN---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. WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.---**Includes 'Wall, A Prologue', reading-group discussion questions and an interview with Neil Gaiman**

  • TheBookPeople

    Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...It includes extra material exclusive to Headline Review's edition.

  • BookDepository

    Stardust : Paperback : Headline Publishing Group : 9780755322824 : 0755322827 : 01 Aug 2020 : A fairy tale for everyone from 'one of the best fabulists of our age' (Financial Times).

  • 0755322827
  • 9780755322824
  • Neil Gaiman
  • 19 September 2005
  • Headline Review
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
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