Deep Secret. Diana Wynne Jones

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      First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz in 1997

      This edition first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2013

      Text copyright © Diana Wynne Jones 1997

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      Source ISBN: 9780007507542

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      Version: 2016-11-24

      Contents

       Title Page

Copyright

       Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-one

       Chapter Twenty-two

       Chapter Twenty-three

       Chapter Twenty-four

       Chapter Twenty-five

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Titles by Diana Wynne Jones

      About the Publisher

      In the year E.K. 3413, the following files were secretly obtained from the Magid Rupert Venables and, at the Emperor’s personal request, deposited in the new archive at Iforion.

      I may as well start with some of our deep secrets because this account will not be easy to understand without them.

      All over the multiverse, the sign for Infinity or Eternity is a figure eight laid on its side. This is no accident, since it exactly represents the twofold nature of the many worlds, spread as they are in the manner of a spiral nebula twisted like a Mobius strip to become endless. It is said that the number of these worlds is infinite and that more are added daily. But it is also said that the Emperor Koryfos the Great caused this СКАЧАТЬ