A Wild Ride Through the Night
by Walter Moers
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Using twenty-one drawings from the work of Gustave Dor-, the most successful illustrator of the 19th century, Walter Moers has created a wondrous and utterly delightful tale. In a world between legend and dream, in a time between childhood and adulthood, A Wild Ride Through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of 12-year-old Gustave, a boy who aspires one day to be a great artist. But before he can achieve this, Gustave must first tackle Mysterious Giants and a Siamese Twins Tornado; he also finds himself encountering the Greatest Monster of All, freeing a maiden from the claws of a dragon, riding through a forest full of ghosts, navigating a Galactic Gully and meeting a dream princess, a talking horse, scantily-clad Amazons and even his own self. Having made a wager with death for nothing less than his life and his soul, he must travel from the earth to the moon and back in a single night.
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A Wild ride through the night: suggested by twenty-one illustrations by Gustave Doré
2008, Overlook Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed.
1585678732 9781585678730
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A Wild Ride Through the Night
May 27, 2003, Secker & Warburg
Hardcover
in English
0436220547 9780436220548
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In einer einzigen Nacht muss Gustave von der Erde zum Mond, einmal quer durch das ganze Universum und wieder zurück reisen. Denn er hat eine Wette mit dem Tod abgeschlossen, bei der es um nichts Geringeres geht als um sein Leben und um seine Seele.
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