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{{Short description|Novel by Alan Garner}} {{For|the Turkish branch of British hair care brand known inside Turkey as Elidor|Sunsilk}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Elidor | image = File:Elidor.jpg | caption = First edition | author = [[Alan Garner]] | illustrator = [[Charles Keeping]] | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = Children's fantasy novel | publisher = [[William Collins, Sons]] | pub_date = 1965 | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 159 pp (first edition) <!-- WorldCat --> | isbn = | oclc = 8060803 | congress = PZ7.G18417 El<ref name=LCC> [http://lccn.loc.gov/67003174 "Elidor"] (first US edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-08-13.</ref> }} '''''Elidor''''' is a children's fantasy novel by the British author [[Alan Garner]], published by Collins in 1965. Set primarily in modern [[Manchester]], it features four English children who enter a fantasy world, fulfill a quest there, and return to find that the enemy has followed them into our world. Translations have been published in nine languages<ref name=worldcat/> and it has been [[film adaptation|adapted for television]] and [[Radio adaptation|radio]]. The story concerns the adventures of a group of children as they struggle to hold back a terrible darkness by fulfilling a prophecy from another world. The setting moves to and from the world of Elidor, and the city of [[Manchester]] and parts of northern [[Cheshire]] in the real world.<ref>[[John Clute]], "Elidor" in, [[Frank N. Magill]] ed., ''Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature'', Vol 1. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, Inc., 1983. {{ISBN|0-89356-450-8}} (pp. 472β474).</ref><ref>K.V. Bailey, "Garner, Alan" in ''St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers'', ed. [[David Pringle]], London, St. James Press, 1996, {{ISBN|1-55862-205-5}}, (pp. 218-220).</ref> Like many of Garner's books, the emphasis of the narrative is on the hardships, cost and practicalities of the choices and responsibilities that the protagonists face.
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