The First Chronicles of Prydain
by Lloyd Alexander 
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A "classic" fantasy that I had never read before. It's aimed at children obviously but I quite enjoyed it. It fairly gallops along - none of that supposedly slow pace of older fantasy here. Fun and easy to read.
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Lloyd Alexander, January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007 Born Lloyd Chudley Alexander on January 30, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Allan Audley and Edna Chudley Alexander, Lloyd knew from a young age that he wanted to write. He was reading by the time he was 3, and though he did poorly in school, at the age of fifteen, he announced that he wanted show more to become a writer. At the age of 19 in 1942, Alexander dropped out of the West Chester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania after only one term. In 1943, he attended Lafayette College in Easton, PA, before dropping out again and joining the United States Army during World War II. Alexander served in the Intelligence Department, stationed in Wales, and then went on to Counter-Intelligence in Paris, where he was promoted to Staff Sergeant. When the war ended in '45, Alexander applied to the Sorbonne, but returned to the States in '46, now married. Alexander worked as an unpublished writer for seven years, accepting positions such as cartoonist, advertising copywriter, layout artist, and associate editor for a small magazine. Directly after the war, he had translated works for such artists as Jean Paul Sartre. In 1955, "And Let the Credit Go" was published, Alexander's first book which led to 10 years of writing for an adult audience. He wrote his first children's book in 1963, entitled "Time Cat," which led to a long career of writing for children and young adults. Alexander is best known for his "Prydain Chronicles" which consist of "The Book of Three" in 1964, "The Black Cauldron" in 1965 which was a Newbery Honor Book, as well as an animated motion picture by Disney which appeared in 1985, "The Castle of Llyr" in 1966, "Taran Wanderer" in 1967, a School Library Journal's Best Book of the Year and "The High King" which won the Newberry Award. Many of his other books have also received awards, such as "The Fortune Tellers," which was a Boston Globe Horn Book Award winner. In 1986, Alexander won the Regina Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Catholic Library Association. His titles have been translated into many languages including, Dutch, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Serbo-Croation and Swedish. He died on May 17, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The First Chronicles of Prydain
- Original title
- The First Chronicles of Prydain
- Original publication date
- 1986
- People/Characters*
- Taran; Coll [in Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain]; Dallben; Gwydion; Gurgi; Achren (show all 11); Eilonwy; Fflewddur Fflam; Medwyn; König Eiddileg; Doli
- Important places*
- Prydain; Annuvin; Caer Dallben
- First words*
- Taran hätte lieber ein Schwert geschmiedet; doch Coll, der mit der praktischen Seite seiner Erziehung betraut war, bestand auf Hufeisen.
Allzu früh war es Herbst geworden. - Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Und Hen Wen grunzte vielsagend.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Und außerdem fällt mir mit Schrecken ein, dass ich die Küche aufräumen muss - das habe ich in der Eile des Aufbruchs vollkommen übersehen! - Original language*
- Englisch
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