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Abarat: Book 1

Abarat (2002) (edit title/settings)

by Clive Barker (Author) (edit contributors)

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Once upon a world where time is place a journey beyond imagination is about to unfold.... It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. Candy Quackenbush lives in Chickentown, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer... read more

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  • “A soul of water, A soul of stone, A soul by name, A soul unknown.The hours unmake Our flesh, our bone.The soul is all; And all alone.”
  • “Oh woe is me!Oh woe is me!I used to have a hamster tree.But it was eaten by a neutAnd now I have no cuddly fruit. Oh Woe is me!Oh woe is me!I used to have a hamster tree.”
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THE PROJECT MISS SCHWARTZ had set for Candy's class was simple enough.

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Prologue: The Mission.

Part One: Morningtide
1. Room Nineteen
2. What Henry Murkitt Left Behind
3. Doodle
4. "Street Ends"
5. A Shore Without a Sea
6. The Lady Ascends
7. Light and Water
8. A Moment With Melissa
9. Events on the Jetty

Part Two: Twilight and Beyond
10. The Waters
11. The Card Players
12. A Talk on the Tide
13. In the Great Head
14. Carrion

Part Three: Where is When?
15. Bug
16. The Universal Eye
17. Almenak
18. The Tale of Harker's Harbor
19. The Veper's Rock
20. The World Through Borrowed Eyes
21. The Hunt

Part Four: Wicked Strange
22. In Gallows Forest
23. The Man Who Made the Kid
24. Digger and Dragons
25. Mischief Undone
26. The House of Lies
27. Words with the Criss-Cross Man
28. A Slave's Soul
29. Cat's Eyes
30. "Come Thou Glyph to Me"
31. The Twenty-Fifth Hour
32. Monsoon
33. All Things in Time
34. Different Destinies

Appendix: Some Excerpts From Klepp's Almenak

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  • Light: The worlds oldest game.

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This is book 1 of 3 in Abarat. (standard series)

Followed by Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War.

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  1. Clive Barker (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublisher
Country: UK
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0002259524
Page Count: 385

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  • Clive barker's website: Clive Barker's website containing up to date and extensive information about his projects

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