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Автор: Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Издательство: HarperCollins
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      The Giants’ Dance

      Robert Carter

      

      For Gerald Wiley, Four Candles.

      ‘First there were nine,

      Then nine became seven,

      And seven became five.

      Now, as sure as the Ages decline,

      Three are no more,

      But one is alive.’

      The Black Book of Tara

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Epigraph

       PART TWO A LOSING BATTLE

       CHAPTER EIGHT THIS BLIGHTED LAND

       CHAPTER NINE STONEHUNTERS

       CHAPTER TEN THE MAD BARON

       CHAPTER ELEVEN THE FLIES

       CHAPTER TWELVE CAPTIVES

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE KINDLY STUMP

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN A THIEF AT LUDFORD

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN MOTHER BRIG

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE HOSTS GATHER

       PART THREE MADNESS AT LUDFORD

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN HONEY MEAD

       CHAPTER NINETEEN A TOAST BY THE DUKE

       CHAPTER TWENTY THE MADNESS GROWS

       CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE A GLIMPSE OF THE ENEMY

       CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO RAW MEAT

       CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE BLOOD STONE

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR FLESH ANEW

       PART FOUR THE TURNING OF THE TIDE

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE TURLOCH’S RING

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CASTLE CORBEN

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN THE DRAGON’S JAWS

       CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT JASPER

       CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE THE NIGHT FLIER

       CHAPTER THIRTY THE DUEL

       CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE A SURFEIT AT DELAMPREY

       CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO THE SECRET WEAPON

       CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE IN THE AFTERMATH

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       APPENDIX I THE OGDOAD

       APPENDIX II THE LORC

       APPENDIX III THE LORC IN OUR WORLD

       THE STORY CONTINUES IN

       About the Author

       By Robert Carter

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

      THE STORY SO FAR

      The Giants’ Dance is the second book in the Language of Stones cycle. The first book, called The Language of Stones, recounted the story of Willand, a boy whose life was changed forever when the wizard, Gwydion, arrived at the village of Nether Norton in the Vale.

      Gwydion, it is revealed, brought Will to the Vale when he was a baby, and has returned to reclaim him on his thirteenth birthday. Before Will leaves, Breona, the woman Will has always thought of as his mother, hangs about his neck a talisman of