The Curator
Published on 7. March 2023
480 pages
978-1-9821-9682-0 (ISBN)
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Owen King, who "writes with witty verve" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a "richly imagined" (The New York Times) Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine.
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability.
Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire?to understand the mystery of her brother's death, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Set against the backdrop of an oddly familiar and wondrous city on the verge of collapse, Dora's search for the truth will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Part I: New People
- 1. Maybe Especially So
- 2. New People
- 3. Events Leading to the Overthrow of the Crown's Government, Pt. 1
- 4. What About That Big Place There?
- 5. Something Is About to Happen
- 6. The National Museum of the Worker
- 7. The Gentle
- 8. Someone Who Can Take Some Words Down
- 9. Two for the Maid in Her Bonnet
- 10. Events Leading to the Overthrow of the Crown's Government, Pt. 2
- 11. The Salute
- 12. Listen
- 13. Events Leading to the Overthrow of the Crown's Government, Pt. 3
- 14. Through Green Glass
- Part II: City of Cats
- 15. General M. W. Gildersleeve, Aboard the Lead Transport Ship
- 16. The Reopening
- 17. Gid
- 18. Tidying Up
- 19. Do You Know That I Never Stopped Thinking of You?
- 20. The Morgue Ship
- 21. The Fields, Pt. 1
- 22. From Act 1.3 of 'A Little Wolf Box' by Aloysius Lumm
- 23. Before Entering the Museum
- 24. The Metropole: The Lieutenant
- 25. The Metropole: The Sergeant
- 26. The Metropole: XVII
- 27. News
- 28. Brewster
- 29. The Fields, Pt. 2
- 30. The Vestibule
- 31. The Hard Worker
- Part III: The Curator
- 32. Stray Cat
- 33. Lorena Skye, Aboard the Morgue Ship
- 34. Still Crossing
- 35. Ike
- 36. A Dream of Three Days
- 37. The Previous Curator
- 38. A Collection of Cards
- 39. Events Leading to the Overthrow of the Provisional Government, Pt. 1
- 40. On the Tram
- 41. Events Leading to the Overthrow of the Provisional Government, Pt. 2
- 42. The Lear
- 43. Events Leading to the Overthrow of the Provisional Government, Pt. 3
- 44. The Curator
- 45. Not Who He Believed Himself to Be
- 46. The Hanging Man
- 47. Robert
- 48. A Lot of Dead People to Bury
- 49. Outside
- 50. Are You Bad?
- 51. Do You See Me? Do You See My Face?
- 52. New People
- 53. Friends
- 54. The Hunt
- 55. Winter
- A Note
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
