by Susan Cooper · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198328889
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«King of Shadows» is Susan Cooper's time-travel novel, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Nat Field, a young actor, travels to London to take part in a production of «A Midsummer Night's Dream» at the Globe. After falling ill, he wakes four hundred years earlier, in Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare himself offers him the human connection he lacks in his own time.
Part of the Rollercoasters series; educational edition published in 2009, aimed at students of English.
Designed for young readers and for students of English as a foreign language; suggested reading age from 10 years.
Susan Mary Cooper is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology such as the Arthurian legends and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. In 2024, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 40th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.
