The Stone Book Quartet
Alan Garner
A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists.Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on the outskirts of industrial Manchester.Smiths and chandlers, steeplejacks and quarrymen, labourers and artisans: they all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements and the land. There is a mutual respect and a knowledge of the magical here that has somehow, somewhere been lost to us. These fables beautifully recapture and restore that lost world in simple, searching prose.
ALAN GARNER
The Stone Book Quartet
The Stone Book
Granny Reardun
The Aimer Gate
Tom Fobble’s Day
FOR RALPH ELLIOTT
CONTENTS
Cover (#ueef8cbc2-0cb9-5b36-9df0-97b9886820ea)
Title Page (#u62dedb69-4d10-53da-acb0-3ed815e58eec)
Dedication (#ube6f3d0c-01ee-5a87-bbcc-98311de3d79a)
The Stone Book (#u6c4592e2-00bb-51a1-9210-ae73d08a0cc1)
Granny Reardun (#u2c80a106-5420-5b08-8398-0ca6d037a5e0)
The Aimer Gate (#u4a943722-56f0-5318-b602-1d04623bfeb2)
Tom Fobble’s Day (#u94c0286c-1b38-5847-a48a-8070a994389d)
P.S. (#u3651c498-b6fe-577d-9d8f-11410fa32c1f)
About the Author (#ulink_f6f49a00-fa79-590b-a458-32d5f2a94aca)
A Biographical Sketch
The Intense Gaze of My People (#ulink_bce66440-ad06-5f5a-b88f-7e38ec15451b)
About the Book (#ulink_d20139fe-b388-5279-8650-9240996c2b59)
What the Papers Said in 1978
A Thirty-Second Exposure (#ulink_47d0783b-9b90-5652-af78-7c3bac6bf99f)
Read On (#ulink_6fc19c65-7d9f-53ea-ab03-47b2e5a4e5e2)
Must Reads
Find Out More (#ulink_3580f9f8-6358-53cc-9ead-1299c17ccbb5)
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About the Author (#u4f64eb70-9651-5ad6-96e4-3655eb9ec3fe)
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Praise (#u956551ce-9b40-5208-9a53-2ba9460ada43)
Copyright (#ulink_3ff9919e-6ee3-50c6-8551-97b09712826b)
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