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Alan Garner | | Birth Date: |
October 17, 1934 | | Place of Birth: |
Congleton, Cheshire, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Alan Garner
6711 words, approx. 22.4 pages
 Alan Garner has become, through a relatively modest output, one of the most important writers for children since 1960. His work is carefully crafted, economic, and precise. His early works-- The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley (1960), The M... summary from source:
 Biography of Alan Garner
4237 words, approx. 14.1 pages
When Alan Garner was a child, he almost died three times. A very sickly boy, he suffered variously from spinal and cerebral meningitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, and diphtheria, at times so ill that he could neither speak nor move. It was on these occasions t... summary from source:
Biography of Alan Garner
3883 words, approx. 12.9 pages
In 1968 Alan Garner, defending his focus on the adolescent audience, asserted in "A Bit More Practice" that "This group of people is the most important of all, and selfishly, it makes the best audience. Few adults read with a comparable involvement." Yet...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Owl Service Information
2,407 words, approx. 8 pages
 The Owl Service is a novel by Alan Garner first published in 1967. It is a contemporary interpretation, which Garner described as an "expression of the myth", of the story of the mythical Welsh figure of Blodeuwedd, whose story is told in the Fourth...
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 The Daily Mail (London, England) Violent end for Owl Service star.
05/31/2008: 414 words, approx. 1 pages Byline: Charles Legge QUESTION The DVD release of the 1968 TV series The Owl Service mentionsthe murder of young actor Michael Holden, who played the lead role of Gwyn.What were the circumstances of this tragic event? THE Owl Service was a... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Mbta Board Spares Night Owl Service
02/12/2003: 659 words, approx. 2 pages The MBTA's after-hours Night Owl bus service escaped extinction yesterday after members of the T's Advisory Board grudgingly allowed the use of $1.1 million from the T's surplus budget to fund the money- losing program through midyear. The vote went against a committee...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
567 words, approx. 2 pages
On one level [The Owl Service] is a story of possession, in which accidents take on dual meanings and the Welsh landscape adds its own shut-in, brooding atmosphere. Alison's mother and Roger's father hope to consolidate their recent marriage and see their children making friends here in the valley. So quickly does the author establish these characters, particularly through subtly diversified class idiom, that you can see the stresses which will threaten the holiday hopes…. These stresse... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Margaret Meek
226 words, approx. 1 pages
Around [the children in The Owl Service], growing out of the wild countryside, its heroic ancient legends and its recent grim past, is woven a fantasy as moving as any in the tradition of imaginative literature. For younger readers the plot is a sequence of curious happenings consequent upon the finding in the loft of dinner plates with an owl pattern. A mystery, an historical fable, the interacting of past and present and a grim, tragic element involving the relationship of parents and children evoke in ol...
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The Owl Service by Alan Garner | |
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