The Golden Shadow

by Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen

Overview

Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller, enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tales of the gods. He longed for a glimpse of the all-powerful deities of his stories, and listened eagerly to those who had experiences such encounters. And interwoven with his journey is the story of Heracles – a magnificent story with all the intense drama and high tragedy of the Greek Myths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448173938
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication date:	10/30/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	517 KB
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.

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"The flexible, plangent prose . . . should wake the most sated reader"

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