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The Dark Lord of Derkholm, simply Dark Lord of Derkholm in the United States, is a fantasy novel by the British author Diana Wynne Jones, published autumn 1998 in both the U.K. and the U.S. It won the 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature.
- Diana Wynne Jones
- 1998
5 de nov. de 1998 · The Dark Lord of Derkholm is actually just the wizard Derk, prophesied by an oracle to be the chosen one, the wizard who would finally bring the world peace and free it from an evil overlord who holds the world in his vice-like grip via a portal from Earth.
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- Diana Wynne Jones
Plot. Everyone in the world is suffering from the pilgrim tours (except the innkeepers, priests, and thieves). So, Querida decides to ask the oracles how to stop the tours. Thus Derk is selected to be the next Dark Lord and Blade is assigned as wizard-guide to the last wizarding tour.
by Diana Wynne Jones. 4.11 · 9,443 Ratings · 359 Reviews · published 2000 · 37 editions. It is eight years after the tours from offworld ha… Want to Read. Rate it: Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm, #1) and Year of the Griffin (Derkholm, #2)
2 de mar. de 2011 · Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning. Access-restricted-item.
10 de abr. de 2001 · A whimsical story about a family in a magical realm who try to cope with being in charge of their father being dubbed the Dark Lord for a year of tours from the nonmagical world, as a ruthless tycoon from that world uses a demon he captured to control them all and make them do his bidding.
- Diana Wynne Jones
29 de oct. de 1998 · If, next door to our ordinary world, there existed a world full of magic, wouldn't you want to visit it? That's the situation that Diana Wynne Jones explores in Dark Lord of Derkholm, and she makes an effective and comical tale of it.
