Company of Liars (edit title)

Meggly edited the table of contents of Company of Liars Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• Prologue

  Chapter One: The Midsummer Fair p. 5-14
  Chapter Two: The Company p. 15-24
  Chapter Three: Zophiel p. 25-41
  Chapter Four: Adela and Osmond p. 42-59
  Chapter Five: The Cripple's Wedding p.60-73
  Chapter Six: Saint John Shorne's Shrine p.74 -87
  Chapter Seven: The Prophecy p. 88-94
  Chapter Eight: Swan-boy p.95-111
  Chapter Nine: Vampires and Jews p.112-125
  Chapter Ten: Cygnus p.126-145
  Chapter Eleven: All Soul's Night p.146-159
  Chapter Twelve: Retribution p.160-175
  Chapter Thirteen: Pleasance Tale p.176-191
  Chapter Fourteen: Glass-blower p.192-214
  Chapter Fifteen: The First Death p.215-226
  Chapter Sixteen: The Chantry p.227-257
  Chapter Seventeen: The Stew p.258-273
  Chapter Eighteen: Birth and Death p.274-290
  Chapter Nineteen: One is taken p.291-306
  Chapter Twenty: Alchemy p.307-328
  Chapter Twenty-One: The Standing Stone p.329-347
  Chapter Twenty-Two: Stains in the Snow p.348-361
  Chapter Twenty-Three: A Corpse lies bleeding p.362-368
  Chapter Twenty-Four: The Swan Knight p.369-383
  Chapter Twenty-Five: The Mermaid in the Mirror p.384-397
  Chapter Twenty-Six: The Place of the Hollows p.398-417
  Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Sending p.418-426
  Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Game p.429-432
  Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Last Lie p.433-439
  Chapter Thirty: Truth p.440-444
  Chapter Thirty-One: Saint Uncumber p.445-453

  Historical Notes: p.454-458
  Glossary: p.459-465

Meggly edited the first sentence of Company of Liars Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• They say that if you suddenly wake with a shudder, a ghost has walked over your grave.

Meggly edited the quotations of Company of Liars Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Sometimes we heard the grinding of a branch or some other object forced against the pillar of the crypt by the surging water. The stone amplified the noise so that it sounded as if some huge beast was gnawing away at the foundations of the chapel.”Camelot

Meggly edited the summary of Company of Liars Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• In a dark time this lost and confused, wayward band of castoffs find protection, comfort and often suspicion in one another and in their beliefs in the supernatural, spells, relics, charms and folklore of the time. They hit the road during the time when Black Plague was sweeping their homeland and find themselves discovering new truths about themselves throughout.

Meggly edited the characters of Company of Liars Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Camelot: The one-eyed elderly man selling hope in relics
• marked the description of Camelot as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Rodrigo: The passionate musical performer/teacher
• marked the description of Rodrigo as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Jofre: Rodrigo's promising, yet, troubled student
• marked the description of Jofre as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Zophiel: The narcissistic magician
• marked the description of Zophiel as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Adela: She is naive and pregnant and should not be on the open road but is...
• marked the description of Adela as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Osmond: Adela's serious but devoted husband
• marked the description of Osmond as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Cygnus: The one-winged man accused of a heinous murder
• marked the description of Cygnus as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Pleasance: The healer
• marked the description of Pleasance as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Narigorm: The eerily strange, devious albino child who is unofficially adopted by Pleasance
• marked the description of Narigorm as not a spoiler

Shelfari edited the description of Company of Liars Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them. Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group’s leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all—propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming. Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Company of Liars Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Karen Maitland:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Company of Liars Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Karen Maitland: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved mjacobs’s request to combine 3 books, including Company of Liars, Thursday, July 16 2009.

mjacobs submitted a request to combine 3 books, including Company of Liars, Saturday, July 4 2009.