【圖書簡介】 Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence has sold more than two million copies in hardcover and paperback. Now the second book in the sequence, the Newbery Honor Book The Dark Is Rising, has been adapted for the screen as a live-action film with an impressive international cast. Based on the award-winning novel by Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising is the first film adaptation of the author's acclaimed Dark Is Rising Sequence. The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns he is the last of a group of warriors who dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time, Will discovers a series of clues that lead into a showdown with forces of unimaginable power. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in Will's hands.
【作者簡介】 Susan Cooper is best known for her acclaimed sequence of fantasy novels known as The Dark Is Rising which includes Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising (1974 Newbery Honor book); Greenwitch; The Grey King (1976 Newbery Award book); and Silver on The Tree. Her novels for young readers also include Seaward and Dawn of Fear. She has written three books for younger children as well: The Silver Cow, The Selkie Girl, and Tam Lin, all illustrated by Warwick Hutton. In collaboration with actor Hume Cronyn, she wrote the Broadway play Foxfire and –for Jane Fonda – the television film The Dollmaker, for which they received the Humanitas Prize in 1985. Born in Buckinghamshire, England, Susan Cooper moved to the United States in 1963 and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
【本書目錄】 PART ONE: The Finding Midwinter's Eve Midwinter Day The Sign-Seeker The Walker on the Old Way PART TWO : The Learning Christmas Eve The Book of Gramarye Betrayal Christmas Day PART THREE: The Testing The Coming of the Cold The Hawk in the Dark The King of Fire and Water The Hunt Rides The Joining of the Signs