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.
Key facts about Cart and Cwidder
Diana Wynne Jones wrote Cart and Cwidder, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1975. The book has 204 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780613359146 to find the main one.
Cart and Cwidder is book 1 of 4 in The Dalemark Quartet series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Diana Wynne Jones writes Chrestomanci and Howl's Moving Castle as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, The Islands of Chaldea is the latest published Diana Wynne Jones book on file, from 2014.
About Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones was a British author who spent over four decades writing some of the most inventive fantasy fiction published for young readers, prized as much by adults as by children for prose that was witty, structurally daring, and never condescending. See every Diana Wynne Jones book in order.
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