Quarter-bound in buckram with Modigliani paper sides. These handsome boxed sets include all five books in the celebrated sequence.īoxed sets available from Barnes & Noble and (local booksellers). Paperback and e-book available from Barnes & Noble. Susan Cooper's award-winning Dark Is Rising sequence, which has delighted fantasy readers for over forty years, can be found once again in one brilliant volume! Full of symbolism and allegory, the story and its implications are nevertheless clear, comprehensible, and enormously exhilarating.” - Ethel Heins, The Horn Book “The mounting excitement of the narrative is well-matched by the strength of the writing, which can be as rich and as eloquent as a Beethoven symphony.

The five-book cycle, a classic work of children’s literature, is deeply rooted in the rich heritage of Arthurian legend and Celtic mythology. Will, his ageless master Merriman, and their allies and adversaries-human and mythic alike-seek the objects of power that will tip the uncertain balance of good and evil that exists throughout the world and within the mind of man. The battles against the last dreadful rising of the Dark are waged across time in the most ancient myth-haunted places of England and Wales. When young Will Stanton discovers he has come of age as the lastborn of the Old Ones, the immortal keepers of the force of the Light, he is swept up in the age-old struggle between the powers of Light and Dark. Power from the green witch, lost beneath the sea Īll shall find the light at last, silver on the tree. Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the old Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold

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