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A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls--basis for the Jack Black movie--and "a writer who knows what wizardry is all about" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards, stymied by a power that is beyond their control. A tall, skinny misfit of a wizard, named Prospero, lives in the Southern Kingdom -- a patchwork... Read Full Overview

A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls--basis for the Jack Black movie--and a writer who knows what wizardry is all about (Ursula K. Le Guin). A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face... Read Full Overview