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A Wild Ride Through the Night

By Walter Moers, John Brownjohn (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9781585678730

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In the wake of the breakout successes of Walter Moers's The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures, and The City of Dreaming Books, Moers is back with this fourth book, the tumultuous tale of a little boy and his encounter with Death. Moers bases his utContinue

In the wake of the breakout successes of Walter Moers's The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures, and The City of Dreaming Books, Moers is back with this fourth book, the tumultuous tale of a little boy and his encounter with Death. Moers bases his utterly delightful story on twenty-one woodcuts by the inimitable Gustave Doré, the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century.

In a world between legend and dream, A Wild Ride through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of his twelve-year-old protagonist Gustave, a boy who aspires one day to be a great artist. When a disaster at sea puts Gustave in the uncompromising hands of Death, he has the choice to give up the ghost or take on a series of six impossible tasks. Gustave embarks on a strange and perilous journey during which he must save a princess from an angry dragon, pull a tooth from the Most Monstrous of All Monsters, fly over the moon, and even, somehow, meet his own self. Will Gustave's creativity and imagination be able to save him from his fate?

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  • Here be dragons aplenty

    Walter Moers has cleverly built a fantastical tale around 21 drawings from the work of the famous 19th-century illustrator, Gustave Doré. The woodcuts reproduced in the book are of gryphons and monsters, naked damsels and dragons and the faces of the ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 208 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1585678732
  • ISBN-13: 9781585678730
  • Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
  • Pub date: Sep 04, 2008
  • Also available as: Paperback
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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