Summary
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Deep in the English countryside, long before the days of our grandfathers, stood the peaceful village of Wall. It was called the Wall because the Wall really passed through it: the Wall between the world we know and the one on the other side. And on the other side of the Wall lay all those regions that the intrepidity of explorers and the laziness of scientists drove out from valid maps of the world. Vilindom still rested there, and the residents of Vilindom held a fair in Zid every nine years. It was at such a fair that honest country boy Dunstan Thorn got his son Tristan. Tristran Thorn, on the other hand, continued to live as an honest country boy until he fell in love with the country beauty Victoria Forester and promised her - well, the first thing that came to his mind: that he would bring her that star that had just fallen from the other side of the Wall. Because Victoria was everything in the world to Tristan. And who wouldn't go anywhere, even to a completely different world, following the Desire of His Heart?
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