One day, Dunstan stands guard at the wall, then goes to the.

Relationship is pretty tame, and Daisy is wishing that Dunstan would propose

Our guy Dunstan has been courting Daisy Hempstock, but the.

Provokes a fight between a local boy, Tommy, and a dark-eyed visitor, Alum Bey,

This beautiful chick Bridget Comfrey works at the inn, and she.

Visitors are coming to Wall from all over for the Fair, andĬhecking in at the Seventh Magpie, an inn that this dude Mr.

At this time, Dunstan Thorn is eighteen, an ordinary guy who.

Literally, when Queen Victoria was on the throne, and Dickens was writing Oliver Twist, and stuff like that.

Flash back to the Victorian era, like,.

The guards only chill out once every nine years, on May Day,.

You can see through the break in the wall is meadows and trees, a.k.a. Wall, and it's always guarded by two villagers at a time.

There's only one place to pass through this huge grey rock.

There is, as you might've guessed, a giant wall next to the town, giving it its name.

Our story starts in Wall, which is a tiny town about a night's drive from London.

(Jan.The Village of Wall, and of the Curious Thing That Occurs There Every Nine Grounding his narrative in mythic tradition, Gaiman employs exquisitely rich language, natural wisdom, good humor and a dash of darkness to conjure up a fairy tale in the grand tradition. This novel is at once a magical adventure, a charming love story and a fable about attaining one's heart's desire-which, in Gaiman's world, is seldom what one thinks it to be.

Tristan is not the sole seeker of the star a powerful witch-queen and the dark Lords of Stronghold also have their designs upon the fallen celestial body.

Tristan sets out on his quest, entering the realm of Faerie, and soon encounters a variety of fantastical denizens, both good and evil. When a star falls from the sky, a disdainful Victoria promises Tristan his heart's desire if he will bring her that star. Raised without knowledge of his fairy blood, Tristan falls in love with a local beauty, Victoria Forester. There, every nine years, a fair is held where the magic folk commingle, occasionally in intimate ways, with those who live in the mundane world. The story begins in the Victorian-era English village of Wall, a place that touches the world of Faerie. Here, Gaiman extends his range by offering a novel-length fairy tale, one that abounds in wonder and lessons. For more than a decade, Gaiman has been helping readers grapple with reality by offering fantastic worlds in visionary graphic novels like The Sandman, occasional short stories and his bestselling first prose novel, Neverwhere. Wallace Stevens believed that in order to see the actual world, it helps to visualize a fantastic one.

Stardust by neil gaiman