Author: JONES, DIANA WYNNE
Title: The Ogre Downstairs
Description: New York: Greenwillow Books, 1990. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1974, this is a new edition - and First Edition Thus. Young Adult Fantasy. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket flap edges have some beginning toning / darkening. "Caspar and Johnny pelted up to Gwinny's room. They burst in and stood staring. Gwinny did not seem to be there. Her lamp was lit, her bed empty, her window shut, and her dollhouse and all her other things arranged around as usual, but they could not see Gwinny." "Jones started writing during the mid-1960s "mostly to keep my sanity", when the youngest of her three children was about two years old and the family lived in a house owned by an Oxford college. Beside the children, she felt harried by the crises of adults in the household: a sick husband, a mother-in-law, a sister, and a friend with daughter. Her first book was a novel for adults published by Macmillan in 1970, entitled Changeover. It originated as the British Empire was divesting colonies; she recalled in 2004 that it had "seemed like every month, we would hear that yet another small island or tiny country had been granted independence." Changeover is set in a fictional African colony during transition, and begins as a memo about the problem of how to "mark changeover" ceremonially is misunderstood to be about the threat of a terrorist named Mark Changeover. It is a farce with a large cast of characters, featuring government, police, and army bureaucracies; sex, politics, and news. In 1965, when Rhodesia declared independence unilaterally (one of the last colonies and not tiny) , "I felt as if the book were coming true as I wrote it." ". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: Science Ficiton Diana Wynne Jones Fantastic Fiction Fantasy Ogres Monsters Humor
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Title: The Ogre Downstairs
Description: New York: Greenwillow Books, 1990. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1974, this is a new edition - and First Edition Thus. Young Adult Fantasy. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket flap edges have some beginning toning / darkening. "Caspar and Johnny pelted up to Gwinny's room. They burst in and stood staring. Gwinny did not seem to be there. Her lamp was lit, her bed empty, her window shut, and her dollhouse and all her other things arranged around as usual, but they could not see Gwinny." "Jones started writing during the mid-1960s "mostly to keep my sanity", when the youngest of her three children was about two years old and the family lived in a house owned by an Oxford college. Beside the children, she felt harried by the crises of adults in the household: a sick husband, a mother-in-law, a sister, and a friend with daughter. Her first book was a novel for adults published by Macmillan in 1970, entitled Changeover. It originated as the British Empire was divesting colonies; she recalled in 2004 that it had "seemed like every month, we would hear that yet another small island or tiny country had been granted independence." Changeover is set in a fictional African colony during transition, and begins as a memo about the problem of how to "mark changeover" ceremonially is misunderstood to be about the threat of a terrorist named Mark Changeover. It is a farce with a large cast of characters, featuring government, police, and army bureaucracies; sex, politics, and news. In 1965, when Rhodesia declared independence unilaterally (one of the last colonies and not tiny) , "I felt as if the book were coming true as I wrote it." ". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: Science Ficiton Diana Wynne Jones Fantastic Fiction Fantasy Ogres Monsters Humor
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 33979
- Book number: 33979
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