 First edition | |
| Author | Alan Garner |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Charles Keeping |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's fantasy novel |
| Publisher | William Collins, Sons |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 159 pp (first edition) |
| OCLC | 8060803 |
| LC Class | PZ7.G18417 El[1] |
Elidor is a children's fantasy novel by the British author Alan Garner, published by Collins in 1965. Set primarily in modern Manchester, it features four English children who enter a fantasy world, fulfill a quest there, and return to find that the enemy has followed them into our world. Translations have been published in nine languages[2] and it has been adapted for television and radio.
The story concerns the adventures of a group of children as they struggle to hold back a terrible darkness by fulfilling a prophecy from another world. The setting moves to and from the world of Elidor, and the city of Manchester and parts of northern Cheshire in the real world.[3][4]
Like many of Garner's books, the emphasis of the narrative is on the hardships, cost and practicalities of the choices and responsibilities that the protagonists face.
- ^ "Elidor" (first US edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
worldcatwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ John Clute, "Elidor" in, Frank N. Magill ed., Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, Vol 1. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, Inc., 1983. ISBN 0-89356-450-8 (pp. 472–474).
- ^ K.V. Bailey, "Garner, Alan" in St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers, ed. David Pringle, London, St. James Press, 1996, ISBN 1-55862-205-5, (pp. 218-220).