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Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer
Published
26 April 2001
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9780241491126
Type
novel
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About this book

Artemis Fowl opens the series in 2001, introducing twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II, who works out that fairies are real and kidnaps one for ransom to rebuild his family's fortune. At 288 pages, it launches a heist-thriller take on fantasy that pits technologically advanced fae against a genuinely amoral young protagonist.

Key facts about Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl is a novel by Eoin Colfer. Readers have had it since 26 April 2001. It runs to 288 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Artemis Fowl. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780241491126 to find the main one.

Artemis Fowl is book 1 of 9 in the Artemis Fowl series. The series has 9 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 July 2012.

Additionally, Eoin Colfer writes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, W.A.R.P. and The Fowl Twins as separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Firefox Moon is the latest published Eoin Colfer book on file, from 11 November 2025.

About Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer is an Irish author born in 1965 in Wexford, the son of a teacher and historian and a drama teacher, who worked as a primary school teacher himself before writing full-time. See every Eoin Colfer book in order.

Its place in Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl is book 1 in the Artemis Fowl series. It is followed by Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident. See the full Artemis Fowl reading order.

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl II is a genius, a millionaire, and a criminal mastermind from a long line of Irish crime-family aristocrats, and he's just worked out that fairies are real. Rather than wonder at them, he kidnaps one for ransom, gold being exactly the kind of leverage he needs to rebuild his family's fortune. What follows is less a fairy tale than a heist thriller wearing fairy-tale clothing: fully modern, technologically advanced fae (LEPrecon commandos with hi-tech gadgets, a foul-mouthed dwarf, a…

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