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"Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers, Oldest of the Old..." With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for centuries. But an illness has robbed Will of nearly all his knowledge of the Old Ones, and he is left only with a broken riddle to guide him in his task. As Will travels blindly through the hills, his journey will bring him face-to-face with the most powerful Lord of the Dark - the Grey King. The King holds the harp and Sleepers within his lands, and there has yet to be a force strong enough to tear them from his grasp...

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satisfying close.

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1856 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world.

Simon, Jane e Barney, i protagonisti di Sopra il mare, sotto la terra , e Will Stanton, l'eroe di Uno spicchio di tenebra , non si erano mai visti prima che il misterioso Merriman li convocasse in Cornovaglia, in un paesino dove si sta per celebrare un antico rito: la costruzione di un pupazzo chiamato Stregaverde, che verrà affidato al mare perché protegga la pesca e il raccolto. Se i quattro ragazzi sono là, è per ritrovare il sacro Graal rubato dai seguaci delle Tenebre, pronte a scatenare la loro oscura magia e a impadronirsi del mondo. E toccherà a Jane, la più fragile, misurarsi con Stregaverde in persona, emersa dalle onde per impedire che il prezioso calice sia restituito ai Vetusti, gli adepti della Luca impegnati in una guerra millenaria contro il Male...

Robert the rat gets his wish to become human when a fairy godmother transforms him into a coachman to chauffeur Amadea to the ball, but trouble starts when the spell ends at midnight, in this Cinderella story told from an unusual point of view. Recommended.