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Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
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Abarat: Book 2

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (2004) (edit title/settings)

by Clive Barker (Author) (edit contributors)

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All things in their time . . . Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar ? Candy and her companions must solve the... read more

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  • “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

OTTO HOULIHAN SAT N the dark room and listened to the two creatures who had brought him here a three-eyed thing by the name of Lazaru and its sidekick, Baby Pink-Eye -playing Knock the Devil Down in the corner.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue: Hunger
Part One: Freaks, Fools and Fugitives
1. Portrait of Girl and Geshrat
2. What there is to see
3. On the Parroto Parroto
4. The Scavengers
5. The Speaking of the Word
6. Two Conversations
7. Something of Babilonium
8. A Life in the Theatre
9. Again, the Criss-Cross Man
10. "The Freaks Are Out! The Freaks Are Out!"
Part Two: Things Neglegted, Things Forgotten
11. Travelling North
12. Darkness and Anticipation
13. The Sacbrood
14. Lament (The Munkee's Tale)
15. The Pursuer
16. The Wunderkammen
17. The Star-Striker
18. Departure
19. Life and Death in Chickentown
20. Malingo Alone
21. Night Conversations
22. A Death Sentence
23. Dreamer to Dreamer
24. Husband and Wife
25. Fates
26. Kaspar is Visited
27. Abduction
28. A Summoning
Part Three: A Time Of Monsters
29. The Captain Converses
30. The Beasts of Efreet
31. News in Nonce
32. Events at the Threshold
33. A Visit To Marapozsa Street
34. Secrets and Meat Loaf
35. Two in Nineteen
36. The Bridegroom Unearthed
37. The Owner of the Dead Man's House
38. Midnight's Heart
39. Dragon Bones
40. A Tale of Endless Partings
41. An Ambitious Conjuration
42. The High Maze
43. The Dark Denied
44. The Prince and the Beast-Boy
45. A Decision
Part Four: The Sea Comes To Chickentown
46. Departures
47. Something in the Wind
48. Stirring the Waters
49. Into the Hereafter
50. Father and Daughter
51. Into the Wormwood
52. The Secret of Secrets
53. The Warship Unmade
54. The Living and the Dead
55. The Beginning of the End
56. Down and Down
57. "Never Fear..."
58. The Return of the Sea

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  • The Sea: Giver of life, re-birth/baptism and its opposite. Taker of life, death, destruction; out of which comes new life, re- birth etc. Like the wave coming and going. (also has an echo of The Flood from Genesis)

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 3 in Abarat. (standard series)

Preceded by Abarat, and followed by Absolute Midnight.

This is book 2 of 3 in Abarat. (standard series)

Preceded by Abarat, and followed by Absolute Midnight.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Clive Barker (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0060291702
Page Count: 512

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