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New York Times Bestseller“A twisting, wondrous tale full of magic that only Neil Gaiman could have written.” — Chicago TribuneFrom 1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a beautiful and enchanting tale of love, adventure, and magic―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene YeeOne of Neil Gaiman’s most beautiful and enchanting tales, Stardust is the story of Tristran Thorn, a young man who promises the woman he loves that he will bring her back a fallen star. But there are others who seek the star, for their own reasons. And then there's the star herself . . .A beloved fairy tale infused with humor, magic, adventure, and romance, Stardust is a timeless work that demonstrates the writer’s bold, elegant and infinitely wondrous imagination. Read more
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication date : January 20, 2021
Edition : Reissue
Language : English
Print length : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063070715
ISBN-13 : 14
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Reading age : 16+ years, from customers
Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.64 x 8 inches
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Okay, maybe not the kind of Fairy Tale you would read to your very young children, but after delving through horror and dark fantasy, I found Stardust to be a refreshing, childlike break; minus the hangover of feeling like I was exposed to an excess of sugar and cotton candy. After all, Fairy tales used to be a bit brutal in their own right, and taking away all of the blood and violence in order to conform to today's "Politically Correct" standards also takes away from the lesson to be learned. IMHO. This tale is told with a simple exuberance, yet manages to hold up under the scrutiny of all us die hard Neil Gaiman fans, showing us that he has the talent to lead us along gentler slopes of the same deadly peaks and chasms he has taken us to in his other works. His playfulness shows through in Stardust as a novel, the way his chapbooks "Wolves In The Walls" and "The Day I Swapped My Dad For 2 Goldfish" did with his graphic novels. Tristin Thorn lives in the English town of Wall, right next to, well, the Wall. There is only one way through the Wall, a gap which is constantly guarded by the village folk of Wall; not to keep people from coming in, but to keep the inhabitants of Wall from crossing over into the land of Faerie. Once every nine years there is a huge fair within the field beyond the gap, and only then do the peoples from each of the lands mingle. Tristin is not aware that half of his lineage is from across the Wall, and when the day comes that he watches a falling star with the girl he wishes to marry, and promises to bring her back that very same star, his father Dunstan helps him to cross the gap into Faerie. Over in Faerie, it is time for the Lord of Stormhold to die, and pass along his Reign to one of his sons. Unable to determine which of his surviving sons is worthy, the old Lord tosses the Power of Stormhold (a topaz set in an amulet) up into the air and tells his sons that whoever finds the amulet will rule after him. This won't be easy for the offspring of the old Lord, for already four of his seven sons were dead, killed off by the living brothers in order to eliminate their claim to Stormhold. Also in Faerie live the Lilim, three ancient women who have lived on and on for forever, revitalizing their youth by eating the hearts from fallen stars. When the star falls, one of the ancient crones makes herself young again and sets out after the star. Tristin is helped along in his quest by some, and treated rudely by others, but always manages to get along by determination and, surprisingly, innocence. When he is transported by a magic candle to where the star had fallen, he is shocked to see that the Fallen Star is a girl, and she has a broken leg to boot. The adventures of Tristin in his journey back to The Wall and the market within the field are magical, fantastical, and sometimes just a tiny bit scary. Though the plot really does have a transparent ending, it still does not take away from the total enjoyment of Tristin's adventures and the predicaments he falls in and out of. All of the main characters coalesce in the ending, but the side characters we meet along the way are just as fleshed out and real to me as Tristin, Yvaine the Star, and Madame Semele with her mysterious bird. Go ahead and step through the Gap with Tristin, you won't be sorry you tagged along. Enjoy!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2004 by Schtinky
Format: Kindle
STARDUST is the most recent of Neil Gaiman's back catalog that I find myself working though. Like everything of his that I have read, it is high fantasy, very interesting, at turns humorous and sometimes dark, and very, very well written. STARDUST, unlike some of his others (for example CORALINE AND THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE are clearly for children or young adults) could be read by mature young adults, but as it contains a couple of (relatively tame by modern standards) semi-explicit sex scenes and some 4 letter words, I titled my review for as I did. This one is a real faerie tale, taking place in some parallel late 19th century England, where just outside the walled city of Wall lies a magical land populated by witches, various nasty creatures, ghosts, evil lords and queens and the like. Our hero, young Tristran Thorn, goes on a quest to retrieve a star that he and the girl he loves watch fall the ground. He promises to bring her back the fallen star to get her to give him his heart's desire - maybe a kiss, maybe her hand in marriage, it's not all that clear to us or to Tristran. Tristran himself is of mysterious origins, having been delivered to the gates of Wall as a newborn 9 months after his father, Dunstan, had a tryst with one of the mysterious denizens of the outlying faerie lands during one of the once-every-9-years wall openings for a fair during which humans and fae comingle. The fallen star turns out to have the form (in Fae land) of a beautiful young girl, Yvaine, with a broken leg from the fall, and most of the novel is about the growing relationship between Tristran and Yvaine and a mutual coming of age and falling in love. Plus of course witches and other baddies getting in the way. The imagery is beautiful as it usually is for Neil Gaiman and there are many standard fairy tale tropes abounding, but all given that special little Gaiman twist. A very nice, enjoyable light read for mature young adults and grown ups of every age. Oh, one last thing. For $1.99 Kindle download for 368 pages, this has got to be one of the best deals out there in fantasyland. Highly Recommended. J.M. Tepper
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Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2014 by James Tepper
It really doesn't get much better than this. Stardust is everything that a fantasy lover, a romantic, a historian, an astronomer, a lover of books could possibly want. Gaiman has never disapointed me and has always over exceeded my expectations. Stardust is no exception to this. Stardust is the beautiful story of Tristran Thorn and a fallen star. The story takes place in the village of Wall, but mostly in Faerie, located right outside of Wall. Every nine years, the inhabitants and creatures of the land of Faerie host a market right outside of Wall. People come from all over the world to visit the market where all sorts of magical things are traded for promises and contracts. Young Tristran Thorn is a product of this market as the reader will discover in the early chapters. Tristran falls in love with Victoria Forester, and on one night vows that if she will marry him, he will retrieve a fallen star that has fallen into Faerie. Stardust is the story of finding that star. Tristran is not the only person looking for the fallen star. There are three princes who's right to the throne depends on finding the star and there is a witch who seeks the star so that she may gain the beauty of youth. It is Tristran who finds the star first and we find that the star is a beautiful woman named Yvaine. I'll leave the rest of the thrilling, warm, romantic, awe inspiring story to the reader. Stardust is one of the most magical books I have read in a long time. Gaiman has an amazing ability as an author to pick the perfect word each and every time. I felt a warmth inside the whole time I read this book. It's absolutely beautiful and everything that fantasy should be. He has a gift like no other when it comes to his power with words and ideas. This is very much a classic fairytale, but at the same time, he makes it just not another fairytale. There are witches, princesses, spells, talking things that don't normally talk, castles, revenge, romance, yet it is such a beautifully unique book. There is another version of this book that was illustrated by the amazing Charles Vess that was published in 1999, and I would love to get my hands on that. Gaiman and Vess are releasing yet another version of Stardust on May 2nd with all new illustrations that will be published by Vertigo. In addition, we can all look forward to Stardust the movie to debut in August I believe. I can't wait to see this movie on the screen, but at the same time, I have my apprehensions. I'm having a hard time picturing Michelle Pfeifer as the witch and with Robert DeNiro as anything at all. But I have no doubt at the same time that I shall enjoy it. Add this book to your collection if you don't already have it. It's a beautiful story that you'll want to start all over again as soon as you turn the last page.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2007 by Chris Howard
Format: Kindle
I don't know why, but I have always been under the impression that I had read Stardust, by Neil Gaiman. I had seen the film, but for some reason it didn't seem like the book I remembered. There are 2 reasons for that -- first, I had never actually read the book, and second, the film bears only a passing resemblance to the book. (No cross-dressing pirate, a lot more colorful characters...a much better ending...you get the drift.) First published in 1998, Stardust is a beautiful, lyrical and sometimes violent journey into fairyland. First off let me just say I loved this book. Tristran is naive yet brave, and obsessed with the notion of true love. Victoria is snobbish and not really worthy of him. Yvaine has all the best qualities of a true star--she is coldly, amazingly beautiful, and childish. The Lord of Stormhold and his heirs are awesome characters. They are not evil, but they are not good (good people don't kill each other as they scrap their way to the throne.) There are 3 evil characters in this tale (though one is not a character, it's more of a doom): The obviously evil Morwanneg who wants to cut out the heart of the star so she and her sister will regain eternal youth, Madame Semele who is just plain greedy and who holds Tristran's mother captive, and the overhanging evil of what will happen to Yvaine if Tristran succeeds in taking her back to Victoria. Each and every sentence of this book is beautiful. I fell into the prose and the dream that the tale evokes and didn't want to emerge even for food. This ability to draw a scene and set it with both mystery and clarity is why Gaiman is one of my favorite authors. If you have seen the movie, and think you know the story, you couldn't be more wrong. The book holds more magic, love, epic adventure and sheer fairy tale inventiveness than the movie ever could.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2014 by Connie J. Jasperson
Tristan is a boy who lives in the city of Wall. He has spent his whole life being the meek shop boy and being overlooked by the woman (Victoria) of his dreams. Little does Tristan know, an adventure to reclaim his heritage is in store for him. His father is from Wall, but his mother is from a city beyond the wall called Stormhold. Stormhold is more mythical than reality, ghosts hang around kings, witches hunt for the key to immortality, unicorns exist, moons speak and stars watch. Admittedly, I read this because this is the group book for the Book Junkie Trials readathon. I have watched and rewatched the Stardust movie with Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer for years and it's one of my all time favorites. I have thought about reading this book but never had the motivation until now. So I have seen the movie so many time, my entire frame of reference reading this book is how different it was from the movie and so this review is told through the lens of how I see the book to the movie in comparison. I did enjoy this, but I think it should be kept in mind that this really is a children's story. I loved the premise for this, just as I loved the movie. But the characters did not feel super fleshed to me. There are so many cute elements that were in here that really made this a fun read. So many differences between the movie and this little book (I wrote down five pages to compare and contrast the differences). Most of the differences are in the details and not in the over arching theme to this book. I fell in love with the theme of this book and all the themes between the book and the movie were the same. Both had very good attributes. The book included a ton of elements that were a bit more magical. Stormhold was referred to in the book as being the land of Fairy and we never had that connection in the book. Also, there was a lot less romance in the book as well. We had a little bit but not a ton, just enough to let you know it was headed in that general direction. These were just a few of the differences. I also felt the book was slightly geared more towards children than the movie. Both and the book and movie stand on their own as two separate stories with the same theme and idea behind them. Both of them were enjoyable in their own way, but overall I love the movie more. All the scenes I fell in love with in the movie were only touched upon in the book. For example, the time that was spent on Captain Alberic's ship was cut so short in the book and those scenes added so much time for character development and magic in the movie that it made me sad to see that scene so shortened. I could go on and on about all the differences. But overall the book is a great children's story and I really enjoyed it.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2019 by Thebookbella
Format: Kindle
Stardust follows Tristan Thorn as he leaves his town and ventures into a magical realm beyond the wall. He is on a journey to collect a fallen star for his love interest.. I am going to start off by saying something I never thought I would say; I honestly enjoyed the film more than the book. Okay, you may now ostracize me. The story was a beautiful concept, and I am a huge fan of the author. I am also very fond of fantasy and enjoy reading the genre on a regular basis. I am by no means labeling this as a bad read. I did find it entertaining. I just wanted to enjoy this so much more than I was able to. I wanted to love this book. With a world full of magic and exotic creatures, I expected nonstop excitement, but somewhere along the line it just fell flat for me. It pains me to even type this. As I said, I really respect Neil Gaiman as an author. I kept waiting for that moment when something within this story would really speak to me, but it never happened. You have a fallen star, witches, a unicorn, spirits, and no shortage of magic so this seems like the perfect recipe for an amazing tale of fantasy, and I know many who really believe it is. However, the end result left me desiring too much. I felt that the characters could have been built on more, and that overall the story just began to crawl. I know many people may disagree with this review, and I do honestly recommend reading this book for yourself if you enjoy fantasy. It has the right elements. Maybe I missed something with this one. I am left unsure of just how I feel after finally having read this title.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016 by The Casual Nerd
Format: Kindle
*Spoiler free* Neil Gaiman was not a name I was familiar with until about a week ago. I saw that this book was $1.99 on Amazon the other day after I ran across the authors name on a friends Instagram. I started to research the book on Goodreads and I was surprised to find out that Gaiman was the author Coraline and few other stories I had on my TBR list. I bought the book and dove right into it, not really expecting to be blown away by the story. I love it when I random book with little expectations becomes a favorite. Is it just me, or do you almost have a sense of "fictional fear" that had you not impulsively bought this book on Amazon, your life would have not been as happy?... I do this all the time. What would my life had been like if I never read this book? Would I look at the stars passively as I did before? Would I think that unicorns are pansy creatures waiting to be eaten by Voldemort? I don't know... You can see how one would worry. Maybe I enjoyed this book so much because I can only dream of having an imagination as wild as Gaiman's. Seriously, some of the ideas and sentences in this book are sheer brilliance that made my logical, no-nonsense mind only wonder what it would be like to see the world in such color. The story was great, but I think this was one of those books that I loved because it was so fantastical. It made me very happy. My only wish is that the adult portions of the book would have been either left out of the book or told in a non-explicit way so that I could recommend this to younger readers. This could have been a great story for all ages, but instead is a fairy tale targeted to adult readers, which is a shame. I still loved it though. So, so much. I don't know if I plan to read anything else by the author, but I know that this world will be one that I revisit soon. Next up, the movie! Which I've heard is really good.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2014 by Victoria's Wide World
When you grow up, you tend to find that the fairy tales that you enjoyed as a child are, well, strictly kids' fare. For the adult reader, the shallow characters, simple narrative and implausible plot twists are a little much, yet even for the grown up, there is an affection for the fairy tale genre. A few writers have been able to tap into this fondness with good adult fairy tales, with probably the most well-known case being William Goldman's Princess Bride. As good as that book is, however, Neil Gaiman's Stardust is even better. Stardust starts off in the town of Wall during the time of Victorian England. The town has, on one side, an ancient wall which in one place has a hole that people can cross through, though this is rarely allowed except for one day every nine years when the mortals of Wall can meet with the Faerie on the other side at a special bazaar. Dunstan Thorn of Wall has a brief but meaningful encounter with a beautiful slave girl from the other side and a year later, the infant Tristan appears at Dunstan's doorstep. Seventeen years later, Tristan is a young man in love with the beautiful but shallow Victoria. To put to rest his efforts to woo her, she tells him that she will only marry him if he brings to her a star that has fallen in Faerie. Rashly, he decides to do just that, but in that magical land, the star has taken the form of a beautiful girl who fell out of the sky after being struck by a topaz gem. Tristan is not the only one interested in the star girl. There is also a trio of witches who want to consume her heart to restore their youth and power. There are also the sons of the Lord of the Stormhold who seek the topaz as it represents the power of their domain. Both of these groups will threaten the progress of Tristan and the girl as they make their way back to Wall, but there are also powerful magic elements that are willing to assist them, and Tristan's half-faerie nature will also help. In my opinion, Stardust does nothing but cement Neil Gaiman's reputation as the best adult fantasy writer around today. He writes well, he avoids the cliches of the genre, and he is that exceptional fantasy author who writes single volume stories. If Stardust has any flaw, it is that it is a mere 248 pages (in my edition); when a book is as much fun as this one, it ends much too quickly.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2007 by mrliteral