Алан Гарнер — книжные серии

The Moon of Gomrath is the name of the one night of the year when the Old Magic is at its most powerful. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would have never obeyed the strange compulsion that drove them to light a fire on the Beacon. But now it is too late--the horsemen called the Wild Hunt are awake and on the ride, and no one is safe.Colin is captured, Susan falls under the sway of the hideous Brollachan, and all along Alderley Edge the forces of evil rally for the conflict to come. For there will be a battle, the likes of which cannot be imagined by mortals. The outcome--and all the hopes of the world--will depend on three unlikely champions: Susan, Colin, and their ally, the wizard Cadellin.

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. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone's return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly…

Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At night, he is on Alderley Edge, watching.

At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and blows bulls on the stone with his blood, and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying.

Colin can’t remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of thirteen is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day. Everything he has read and seen.

And then, finally, a new force enters his life, a therapist who might be able to unlock what happened to him when he was twelve, what happened to his sister.

But Colin will have to remember quickly, to find his sister. And the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall, and there will be only winter, wanderers and moon…

Robert had a secret place. it was high in the steeple above the chapel clock. Father had looked after the clock as long as he'd been a smith - but now he was making horseshoes for the war. Uncle Charlie had come home from the was to help cut the corn harvest. Today was his last day of leave: it was the day that Robert learned about Uncle Charlie's real job: and the day he discovered that his secret place had another secret.

Mary wanted to learn to read and asked her stonemason father for a book. In reply, he sent her into a cavern deep under the hills where the stone was quarried. There she found a sand-floored chamber where, in the light of her candle, she could see the marks left by breaking waves in the rock above her head and, on the wall, the figure of a bull, a stonemason's mark, and the outline of a hand that exactly matched her own. Loodking down, she saw a myriad of footprints made by earlier generations of her family and, in a timeless moment, felt herself surrounded by a throng of people. When she got back home, her father did give her a book - but it was a different one from what she had expected.

Joseph knows that he has to be different from his grandfather, a stone mason whose work is in evidence throughout the village, and the day comes when he must announce his decision.

When his sled is "Tom Fobbled" by another boy, William's grandfather makes him another from an old oak loom.

В книгу известного английского писателя вошли две повести: "Элидор" и "Совы на тарелках". В "Элидоре" используется малоизвестная легенда о юноше, спасшем своих братьев и сестру из поглотившей их Черной башни. Современные дети, попав в другой мир - Элидор - побеждают силы тьмы и вызволяют из-под власти этих сил священные Сокровища, которые должны спасти мир. В основу повести "Совы на тарелках" повожено одно из средневековых валлийских сказаний о женщине, сотворенной из цветов могущественным волшебником и превращенной за измену в хищную сову. Автор оживляет эти старинные легенды и переносит их действие в наши дни, приоткрывая области, о которых многие из нас только смутно догадываются. Таинственные события, прекрасно очерченные характеры героев, напряженные ситуации, в которых они оказываются, - все это по вкусу читателям самого разного возраста. Книги Алана Гарнера и фильмы по его книгам популярны во многих странах мира.

В сборник популярного английского писателя Алана Гарнера вошли два романа "Волшебный камень Бризингамена" и "Луна в канун Гомрата", объединенные общими героями. Современные мальчик и девочка, попав в волшебный мир гномов, эльфов, гоблинов, средневековых рыцарей, спящих зачарованным сном, оказываются в центре столкновения сил Добра и Зла. Наряду с философской глубиной и использованием мифов и легенд романы отличают сюжетная изобретательность и неиссякаемая фантазия. Книга предназначена как для юного, так и взрослого читателя.

В книгу знаменитого прозаика Алана Гарнера вошли две повести - "Камень из ожерелья Брисингов" и "Луна в канун Гомрата". Эти повести занимают почетное место рядом с "Маугли" и "Хоббитом". Недаром же Гарнер - продолжатель традиций великого Киплинга, младший друг, а в чем-то и соперник несравненного Толкина.

Повесть английского писателя Алана Гарнера посвящена необыкновенным приключениям брата и сестры Колина и Сьюзен, приехавших на лето в деревушку у подножия Пеннинских гор. Таинственные, злобные существа объединились против ребят, узнав, что у них хранится волшебный камень, таящий безграничное могущество. Многие опасности им удалось преодолеть с помощью добрых гномов и мудрого волшебника.

Современные мальчик и девочка, попав в волшебный мир гномов, эльфов, гоблинов, средневековых рыцарей, спящих зачарованным сном, оказываются в центре столкновения сил Добра и Зла.