Count Karlstein
Chapters (30)
- Books by Philip Pullman
- Count Karlstein
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Cast of Characters
- Part One: Hildi
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Part Two: Narratives by Various Hands
- Lucy’s Narrative
- Hildi’s Narrative
- Police Report Number 354/21
- Miss Augusta Davenport’s Narrative
- Charlotte’s Narrative
- Max Grindoff’s Narrative
- Hildi’s Narrative continued
- Miss Augusta Davenport’s Narrative continued
- Lucy’s Narrative continued
- Hildi’s Narrative continued
- Lucy’s Narrative continued
- Part Three: Hildi Again
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- About the Author
- What’s next onyour reading list?
Books by Philip Pullman
BOOKS BY PHILIP PULLMAN
HIS DARK MATERIALS
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Lyra’s Oxford
Once Upon a Time in the North
Two Crafty Criminals!
The Scarecrow and His Servant
I Was a Rat!
Spring-Heeled Jack
Count Karlstein
The White Mercedes
The Broken Bridge
THE SALLY LOCKHART MYSTERIES
The Ruby in the Smoke
The Shadow in the North
The Tiger in the Well
The Tin Princess
Count Karlstein
Philip Pullman
Alfred A. Knopf
New York
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 1982 by Philip Pullman
Cover art copyright © 1998 by Kevin Hawkes
Illustrations copyright © 1998 by Diana Bryan
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Previously published in hardcover in the United States in 1998 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain in different form by Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, in 1982.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows:
Names: Philip Pullman ; decorative illustrations by Diana Bryan.
Title: Count Karlstein / Philip Pullman
Description: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1998. | Summary: In the mountains of Switzerland, the wicked Count Karlstein plots to abandon his two orphaned nieces in a hunting lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly hounds. | Identifiers: LCCN: 97044160 (print) | ISBN 978-0-679-89255-7 (trade) | ISBN 978-0-679-99255-4 (lib. bdg.)
Subjects: Orphans—Fiction. | Uncles—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Switzerland—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.P968 Co 1998 (print)
ISBN 978-1-5247-6499-9 (ebook)
First Ebook 2017
ISBN 9780375803482
Ebook ISBN 9781524764999
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Dedication
To Jamie, yet once more
Cast of Characters
Part One: Hildi
Chapter One
Peter crouched over the fire, stirring the embers so that the sparks swarmed up like imps on the rocky walls of hell. Behind him, his shadow shook and flared across the wall and half the ceiling of our little bedroom, and the cracks between the floorboards shone like golden rivers in the darkness.
“Listen,” he said. “Zamiel!”
And with a delicious shiver I pulled my eiderdown over me and lay on the rug with my face pressed to the floor to hear the voices from the parlor below….