Synopsis
Lucy and Charlotte are in the clutches of the Demon Huntsman and their wicked uncle, Count Karlstein. It is up to Hildi, their maid to save them. Told in text and cartoon strip form.
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Revue de presse
"Using multiple narrators and expertly concocted cliffhangers, Pullman crafts a thrilling page-turner. This gothic farce
features young orphans, evil schemers, a gloomy Swiss castle, a long-lost heir, stalwart lads, capable women, a con man on the lam,
hilariously bumbling police officers, and Zamiel: the Prince of the Mountains, the Demon Huntsman. . . . It's whirlwind plotting, manipulated into a pulsing tale of darkened hearts, treachery, and at long last, redemption."--Kirkus Reviews
"In this deliciously gothic thriller there are enough demon huntsmen, evil guardians, and brooding castles to please even the most desensitized reader."--School Library Journal, Starred
"A welcome diversion . . . [that is] dashing, sparkling, and wildly over the top."--Publishers Weekly, Starred
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Quatrième de couverture
No one in the village of Karlstein dares to leave their homes on All Souls' Eve - the night Zamiel the Demon Huntsman comes to claim his prey.
But the evil Count Karlstein has struck a terrible bargin with Zamiel, and so the lives of his young nieces, Lucy and Charlotte, are in danger. Their only hope lies with Hildi, a castle maidservant. One thing is certain - the Demon Huntsman will not return to his dark wood unsatisfied!
A deliciously terrifying and wickedly funny Gothic tale, COUNT KARLSTEIN is the first-ever children's novel by the award-winning Philip Pullman. Originally published in 1982, this new edition of COUNT KARLSTEIN is a treat no Pullman fan should miss.
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Count Karlstein
Edité par
Chatto & Windus, London, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0701126493
ISBN 13 : 9780701126490
Ancien ou d'occasion
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Edition originale
Vendeur : Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australie
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Hard Cover. Etat : VG-. Etat de la jaquette : F-. First Edition. VG-/F-. 8vo. original black boards gilt (ex-library with a few rsms, label etc. to outer leaves, mostly front endpapers, four tape marks to boards, lower section of FFE has been excised leaving scoring in following two leaves, else internally clean & unmarked) in dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned, marked); pp. [vi (last blank)], 166. A good copy of the author's uncommon first childrens novel in a well preserved dustwrapper. N° de réf. du vendeur 014527
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Count Karlstein - SIGNED
Edité par
Chatto & Windus, London, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0701126493
ISBN 13 : 9780701126490
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Edition originale
Signé
Vendeur : MintFirsts Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, Macclesfield, CHESH, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 4 sur 5 étoiles
Hardback. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 165, [1]. Publisher's navy blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Gavin Rowe (priced £5.50 net to front flap). The first UK printing by Chatto & Windus, published in 1982, and not to be confused with the 1991 Doubleday re-issue. Signed by Author to title page. Ex-library, with a Shropshire County Library stamp to copyright page, evidence of label removal to front end-paper, spine tips and corners pushed-in, textblock edges dusty with some light foxing, else contents clean and bright, in a complete dustwrapper with some light creasing to edges. Pullman's uncommon first children's book and third novel overall. Set in the early nineteenth century, when an evil Count draws up a contract with a Demon involving human sacrifice in order to obtain untold riches. Borrowing elements from Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz, and Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel The Moonstone, the story was originally written to be performed as a school play at Bishop Kirk Middle School, Oxford, where the author taught secondary pupils. "Dashing, sparkling and wildly over-the-top fun." -Publishers Weekly. signed. N° de réf. du vendeur 2RC 398
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