Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones

In this sequel, written two years after Dark Lord of Derkholm, Wizard Derk reluctantly agrees to send his youngest daughter Elda, a griffin, off to Wizards University to learn magic. (Well, that and the fact that she wasn't averse to lampooning the pretentiousness of university bigshots!) One gets the strong impression that she just liked that family and their story so much that she wanted to write more about them, and Year of the Griffin is the result. Two years later she turned around and wove many of the themes of that guide into a story about a particular wizard, with particular frailties and interesting particular quirks, and his quirky happy family. Written as a comprehensive tour guide to the one magical world in which all fantasy literature presumably takes place, it contains a lengthy series of alphabetical entries to magical elements that tourists to fantasy worlds can expect to encounter - things such as tavern brawls, stew, and wizards. Lewis, but imperfectly derived from both. OL60131W Page_number_confidence 93.53 Pages 234 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220613145157 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 413 Scandate 20220609101316 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780575070462 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 5.In 1996, Diana Wynne Jones wrote the Tough Guide to Fantasyland as a sly kind of compendium of cliches of the fantasy genre - overdone elements of numerous sword-and-sorcery tales modeled on Tolkien or on C.S. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:08:06 Autocrop_version 0.0.13_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40565820 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones