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Название: Darkspell

Автор: Katharine Kerr

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика

Серия: The Deverry Series

isbn: 9780007391936

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СКАЧАТЬ 7916-e8da-5371-9119-e44a77318784">

      

      KATHARINE KERR

      Darkspell

       New Revised edition

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      First published in Great Britain by GraftonBooks 1988

      Copyright © Katharine Kerr 1987

      Revised edition © Katharine Kerr 1994

      Cover design and illustration by Micaela Alcaino © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

      Katharine Kerr asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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       For my father, Sergeant John Carl Brahtin, 1918–44, who died fighting to free Europe from a worse evil than anything a novelist can invent.

Map of the Provinces of the Kingdom of Deverry in the Year 1060

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Interlude: Spring, 1063

       Cerrmor and Eldidd 790–797

       Summer, 1063

       Epilogue: 1062

       Keep Reading

       Appendix A: The Characters and their Incarnations

       Appendix B: Glossary

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

      The language spoken in Deverry, which we might well call Neo-Gaulish, is a member of the P-Celtic family. Although closely related to Welsh, Cornish, and Breton, it is by no means identical to any of these actual languages and should never be taken as such, just as the Deverrians themselves are quite different from any historical Celts.

      VOWELS are divided by Deverry scribes into two classes: noble and common. Nobles have two pronunciations; commons, one.

      A as in father when long; a shorter version of the same sound, as in far, when short.

      O as in bone when СКАЧАТЬ