The Dalemark Quartet · Book 1
Cart and Cwidder
- Published
- 1 January 1975
- Pages
- 204
- ISBN-13
- 9780613359146
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cart and Cwidder (1975) opens the Dalemark Quartet, following Moril, a boy in a family of traveling musicians who inherits a magical singing instrument called a cwidder.
Its place in The Dalemark Quartet
Cart and Cwidder is book 1 in the The Dalemark Quartet series. It is followed by Drowned Ammet. See the full The Dalemark Quartet reading order.
The Dalemark Quartet is Diana Wynne Jones's most ambitious secondary-world fantasy, built not around one continuing hero but around a single invented country, Dalemark, seen at different, widely separated points in its own history. Cart and Cwidder follows Moril, a boy in a family of traveling musicians whose father is secretly running messages for the political resistance in the harsh, feudal North, and who inherits a magical singing instrument, a cwidder, with far more power than anyone realizes. Drowned Ammet…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780613359146