Ebook {Epub PDF} The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley Edge by Alan Garner

Susan and her brother Colin, staying with their mother's old nurse near Alderley Edge, are catapulted into a battle between good and evil for possession of a magical stone of great power that, unbeknownst to them, is contained in Susan's favorite bracelet. Access-restricted-item. true. www.doorway.ru Interaction Count:  · Garner finds magic and mystery in the English landscape, in the beautiful strangeness of Alderley Edge, in the maze of mines and tunnels that underlies Cheshire. Their quest to return the stone to its keeper leads them on a desperate chase through mines and caves, and into a countryside transformed by a fierce and unseasonable winter (the fimbulwinter).4/5(K). In "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen," award-winning Cheshire writer Alan Garner retells the ancient legend of the cave of the sleeping king as a Young Adult fantasy. His story treads very lightly on the mantle of "Lord of the Rings," and a bit more heavily on Arthurian legend, but draws mainly from local folklore and Scandinavian mythology/5().

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, first published in , is the story of two children, Susan and Colin, who are sent to rural England to stay with Bess Mossock, their mother's childhood nurse. The Mossocks' farm is delightfully old-fashioned, and the Alderley area is dotted with interesting woods to explore as well as treacherous disused mines. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. This exciting tale of magic and myth fits neatly between the most excellent Hobbit, and the Harry Potter series. It is set in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, which is a shire in the Midlands of Britain. Colin and Susan move to their relations who own a farm and have their roots deep in. Whereas LOTR is an Epic scale work, Weirdstone is a much more focused, immediate tale. Yet it has an irrepressible charm. Alan Garner does an exceptional job of blending the fantastical events of Arthurian and Norse mythology against the backdrop of rural Cheshire, England of the 's.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The first edition of the book. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley is a children's fantasy novel by English author Alan Garner. Garner began work on the novel, his literary debut, in , after he moved into the late medieval house, Toad Hall, in Blackden, Cheshire. When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen - has been lost. Susan and her brother Colin, staying with their mother's old nurse near Alderley Edge, are catapulted into a battle between good and evil for possession of a magical stone of great power that, unbeknownst to them, is contained in Susan's favorite bracelet. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate.