The Dalemark Quartet · Book 4
Crown of Dalemark
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 474
- ISBN-13
- 9780613359207
- Type
- novel
About this book
Crown of Dalemark didn't arrive until 1993 -- fourteen years after The Spellcoats -- and at 474 pages is the longest of the four, written last specifically to draw the earlier books' threads and characters together.
Its place in The Dalemark Quartet
Crown of Dalemark is book 4 in the The Dalemark Quartet series. It follows The Spellcoats. 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 9780613359207