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Larklight: Book 1
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Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to... read more
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Characters edit
- Arthur (Art) Mumby: A brave young adventurer, narrator of the tale.
- Myrtle Mumby: Art's annoying older sister, determined to retain her overly lady-like decorum.
- Mr. Webster: A spider like creature that takes Art and Myrtle's home and starts there adventures
- Jack Havock: A pirate whom Art and Myrtle adventure with.
First Sentence edit
Later, while I was facing the Potter Moth, or fleeing for my life from the First Ones, or helping man a cannon aboard Jack Havock's brig Sophronia, I would often think back to the way my life used to be, and to that last afternoon at Larklight, before all our misfortunes began.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter One - In Which We Receive Notice of an Impending Visitor
Chapter Two - In Which Myrtle Does a Little Light Dusting, and Our Awful Adventures Commence.
Chapter Three - In Which We Make Good Our Escape, but Find Ourselves Cast Adrift upon the Uncaring Aether.
Chapter Four - How We Came to the Moon, and What Befell Us There.
Chapter Five - In Which We Find Ourselves Imprisoned on the Plain of Jars and Contemplate a Ghastly Fate (Again).
Chapter Six - We Board the Aether-Ship Sophronia, Where I Make a Remarkable Discovery Concerning the Chemical Wedding.
Chapter Seven - In Which We Encounter the Gentlemen of Her Majesty's Royal Navy.
Chapter Eight - In Which Myrtle and I Enjoy Breakfast with Our New Shipmates.
Chapter Nine - In Which We Make Landfall on the Morning Star.
Chapter Ten - A Brief Digression, in the Course of Which We Learn Certain Facts Concerning the Early Life and Adventures of Jack Havock.
Chapter Eleven - Being an Excerpt from the Journals of Miss Myrtle Mumby.
Chapter Twelve - Leaving Myrtle Unconscious on the Red Planet, We Return to the Narrative of Her Heroic Younger Brother, in the Course of Which the Free-Port of Ph'Arhpuu'xxtpllsprngg is described, and Jack Havock and I Make Our Descent into the Wind-Race.
Chapter Thirteen - In Which I Make Conversation with the Great Storm.
Chapter Fourteen - Another Dip into My Sister's Diaries, Which May be Welcomed by Readers of a Sensitive Disposition as a Sort of Break or Breathing Space from My Own Almost Unbearably Exciting Adventures.
Chapter Fifteen - In Which We Face Fresh Perils 'Mid Saturn's Desolate Rings.
Chapter Sixteen - In Which I Enter the Great Fortress of the First Ones, and Make Several Intriguing Discoveries.
Chapter Seventeen - In Which Some Projected Improvements to Our Solar System are Described.
Chapter Eighteen - In Which I Discover the Curious Truth about My Mother.
Chapter Nineteen - Another Excerpt from My Sister's Diary, Containing a True Account of Her Part in the Recent Unpleasantness at Hyde Park.
Chapter Twenty - We Return Home (Huzzah!), but Discover that it May Already be Too Late to Save Dear Old England from the Vengance of the First Ones (Boo!).
Chapter Twenty One - In Which a Great Many Sensational Things Occur.
Epilogue
Errata edit
Throughout the book the name of the blue female lizard keeps changing between 'Ssillissa' and 'Ssilissa' or 'Ssill' and 'Ssil', which can be confusing. Stick to one spelling!
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 19, 2006
ISBN: 9781599900209
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 19, 2006
ISBN: 9781599900209
Page Count: 400
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