
The Glass Town Game
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"Dazzling." ?Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Charlotte and Emily Brontë enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this "lovely, fanciful" (Booklist, starred review) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens: a train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own.
This is their Glass Town…almost. Their Napoleon never rode into battle on a fire-breathing porcelain rooster. And the soldiers can die; wars are fought over a potion that raises the dead, a potion Anne would very much like to bring back to England. But returning is out of the question?Charlotte will never go back to that horrible school.
Together the Brontë siblings must battle their own imaginations in this magical celebration of authorship, creativity, and classic literature from award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente.
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Part I: A Sound Called Wuthering
- Chapter One: The Bees
- Chapter Two: The Beastliest Day
- Chapter Three: A Game of And
- Chapter Four: To Glass Town, My Girl!
- Chapter Five: Passage, Stashage, Gnashage, and Splashage
- Part II: In This Imperfect World
- Chapter Six: Out of the Train and Into the Fire
- Chapter Seven: Such a Little Thing
- Chapter Eight: A Refreshment of Spirits
- Chapter Nine: The Tragical Romance
- Chapter Ten: Ochreopolis by Air
- Chapter Eleven: The Problem of Primarily Scurrilous Brunty
- Part III: I Am No Bird
- Chapter Twelve: Gone, Gone, Gone
- Chapter Thirteen: Sir Rotter and Lady Rubbish
- Chapter Fourteen: A Bath, a Bit of Paint, and a Pile of Cloth
- Chapter Fifteen: Me and Mine and Bonaparte
- Chapter Sixteen: The Wildfell Ball
- Chapter Seventeen: The Only Onions in the World
- Chapter Eighteen: The High Ground
- Chapter Nineteen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Chapter Twenty: The Vivisectionists' Garden
- Chapter Twenty-One: The Princess in the Tower
- Part IV: And All the Weary Now at Rest
- Chapter Twenty-Two: A Man of Science
- Chapter Twenty-Three: My World Will Shine
- Chapter Twenty-Four: The Storming of the Bastille
- Chapter Twenty-Five: The Door in the Wall
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Home
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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