Items related to Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
Tristran Thorn is compelled to retrieve a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses through the wondrous gate in the stone wall leading to the world of faerie, where he encounters dangerous rivals for the star.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
The versatile Neil Gaiman is best known for scripting upmarket graphic novels, most famously the lengthy Sandman cycle. Stardust was a joint project with artist Charles Vess, a short novel of fairyland enriched by at least one sumptuous painting on every page. This edition contains only the (slightly rewritten) text, alas. Gaiman's story looks back to days before commercial genre fantasy, to Lord Dunsany's and Hope Mirrlees's visions of Faerie as a misty country which is at the same time temptingly close and "over the hills and far away". The simple tale is new but has a twice-told familiarity, crafted like a mosaic from many traditional elements. Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian- English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes, and all the rest. Stardust is by turns knowing, poetic, comic and grisly and exudes considerable charm. If only we had those full-colour Vess paintings too. --David Langford
Review:
In prose that dances and dazzles, Gaiman describes the indescribable: the eerie colours, ravishing scents and dangerous laughter of Faerie (Susanna Clarke)
A new fairy tale about a young man's hunt for his heart's desire, told in clear, rolling prose (Guardian)
A new fairy tale about a young man's hunt for his heart's desire, told in clear, rolling prose (Guardian)
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherVertigo
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1401211909
- ISBN 13 9781401211905
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
- IllustratorVess Charles
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
£ 176.36
Shipping:
£ 3.21
Within U.S.A.
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Stardust
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Vess, Charles (illustrator). New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_1401211909
Buy New
£ 176.36
Convert currency
Stock Image
Stardust
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Vess, Charles (illustrator). New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think1401211909
Buy New
£ 177.21
Convert currency
Stock Image
Stardust
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Vess, Charles (illustrator). New. Seller Inventory # Wizard1401211909
Buy New
£ 177.90
Convert currency
Stock Image
Stardust
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Vess, Charles (illustrator). Brand New!. Seller Inventory # VIB1401211909
Buy New
£ 181.07
Convert currency