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From the bestselling author of the Mithgar novels comes a new version of a classic French fairy tale. A young woman marries a mysterious Prince, only to have magic steal him away-and, once upon a winter's night, her quest begins. "McKiernan brews magic with an insightful blend of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Lady Camille: Heroine of the book. She is accompanied by a bear on her way to marry a prince. Once at the prince's castle, she does not trust her husband and tries to discover his secret, only to trigger a curse. She sets out on a journey to find her husband again.
- Alain: One of the princes with a seasonal demesne. He presides over the winter land and is cursed.
- Giles: Add a description of this character.
- Lanval
- Borel
- Big Jack
- Maman
- Lady Skuld
- Ronda Lo
- Renaud
- Kelmot
- Blanche
- Bear
- Henri
- Raseri
- Colette
- Celeste
- Andre
- Aigrette
- Kolor
- Liaze
- Robert
- Jotun
- Lisane
- Papa
- Girard
- Vivette
- Drake
- Romy
- Verdandi
- Joie
- Aicelina
- Jules
- Merci
- Thoreau
- Brekki
- Felise
- Pons
- Allard
- Huges
- Winterwood
- Main
- Hirota
Setting & Locations edit
- Jordain
- Mithras
- Nordavind
- Scruff
- North Wind
- Ardon
- Saissa
- Lord Valeray
- Leport
- Les Iles
- Troll
- Keltoi
- Fra Galanni
First Sentence edit
They lived in a one-room, stone cottage on the edge of Faery, there where the world ends and the mystical realm begins, there where golden sunshine abruptly becomes twilight all silver and grey, there where night on one side instead of the other is darkness, sometimes absolute, sometimes illumined with a glorious scatter of bright stars and silvery moonlight, sometimes illumined by small, dancing luminosities atwinkle among hoary trees, there where low, swampy lands and crofters' fields and shadowed forests on this side change on that side into misty fens and untilled meadows and deep, dark, mysterious woods.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 5 in Faery. (standard series)
Followed by Once Upon a Summer Day.
This book is in Endicott's Adult Fairy Tales Reading List. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Dennis L. McKiernan (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Roc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0451458400
Page Count: 380
Publisher: Roc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0451458400
Page Count: 380
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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