Igraine the Brave

Igraine the Brave ( published in 1998 ) is a fantasy novel by author Cornelia Funke, illustrated by herself.

Content

The magic Igraine daughter lives with her parents, the beautiful Melisande and Sir Lamorak, and her brother Albert at Castle burnet. Her parents speak with the help of magic books the art of sorcery, Albert learns this also, only Igraine seems not to so gifted. She wants to be better Knight. When accidentally enchant their parents while casting a birthday present in pigs, Igraine must leave in order to procure them the necessary magic ingredients they need for a reconversion.

Just at that time he Gilgalad the greedy with his spiky knight neighboring castle Darkrime one. He wants to also seize Bibernells and of magic books. Albert defends the burnet castle along with the singing books so long to come back against Gilgalad until Igraine with the magic ingredients. While Albert and the parents carry the Polymorph spell, Igraine must act quickly again and hold out for so long with the help of the sorrowful knight Gilgalad and his troops until their parents have reverted to fend off and with their superior magic Gilgalads threat.

Important themes in the book

Becomes more noticeable when reading that spark has used here a bourgeois family model as the basis for Igraine's family. The family scenes are commonplace, and siblings tease each other and argue a bit, just like the audience experienced it every day. The characters evolve throughout the novel. Igraine takes her goal of becoming a true knight, closer, her brother proved to be a magician who Sad Knight freed thanks to Igraine of his sadness and sees a purpose again in his life.

Funke is characterized by the two villains Gilgalad and the prickly Knight a very black picture. For his soldiers brings them to understand because most of them in Gilgalads are not voluntary army. The Good, displays colorful. Also interesting is the attitude of the characters to animals. The positive characters always treat animals well and have a positive image of them. Even snakes that are negative connotations in the typical medieval reception are occupied here positive.

Audiobooks

There is an audio book with three CDs, which was read by Cornelia Funke.

Others

In 2007, a revised by the author revised the book appeared in German. Besides minor content changes ( for example, Igraine is now twelve years old is no longer ten; Gilgalad says the new version Osmund ), she has made ​​stylistic adjustments based on experience with the translation of the book into English.

ISBN

  • ISBN 3-7915-0455 -X
  • Literary work
  • Literature ( German )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Children's Literature
  • Work by Cornelia Funke
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