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 by William Collins Sons. bltadwin.ru Interaction Count: · Alan Garner. Eventually the enemies of Elidor (in the form of a pair of spear-wielding warriors) break through into our world, seeking to seize the treasures and also to destroy something else that has crossed over – Findhorn, who turns out to be a unicorn, fierce and untamed. · Alan Garner. Interview. Garner feels it is unlikely he would have written any of his novels, from Elidor and Red Shift to Thursbitch, Strandloper and Treacle Walker. “MGS is the point.
Elidor. In mid-March the news emerged that writer Alan Garner was returning to the storylines of his first two books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath. His next novel, Boneland, to be published this August, will complete the trilogy he'd always envisioned. Garner was quoted as saying. Alan Garner has a way of mixing up fantasy and reality in a way which seems natural and unforced. Elidor tells the tale of four children who find themselves tangled up in a battle to save Elidor, but they find that once they get back to their Manchester home, the evil forces follow them through. Elidor is a short novel, a favourite from late childhood. Timeless, visionary, a tale of magic and myth, of hope and depair, it was a dark antidote to the happy Blyton bubble. In Alan Garner's world, reality had teeth and an edgy urban feel. Parts of his world were dark, malevolent and twisted.
Alan Garner. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. A mechanical street map, a deserted slum, a church in ruins, and a football. Four ordinary things lead the. Elidor Summary. 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 transitions occur quickly, and fantasy and the everyday intermingle. The story is a fantasy, but most of it takes place in the real world and deals with real problems and responsibilities. Alan Garner. Eventually the enemies of Elidor (in the form of a pair of spear-wielding warriors) break through into our world, seeking to seize the treasures and also to destroy something else that has crossed over – Findhorn, who turns out to be a unicorn, fierce and untamed.
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