The Devil and His Boy
讀書樂編號：6581
推介人： 林永順校友
The Devil and His Boy (1998) A novel by Anthony Horowitz This book i borrow from the library at Sau Mau Ping. it is an terror story,by the way, the wnglish in the book is difficult it is better for from 3 or more than from 3 student to read. i has spend for a week to read this book with dictionary. if schoolmate want to borrow it,you can go to the library. About the book: Orphan Tom Falconer works and slaves for the repulsive Slopes. Then a rich stranger arrives and whisks him away to a new life in Elizabethan London. All kinds of rogues and dangers await him there but it's at a play, "The Devil and his Boy", he discovers that the fate of England is in his hands. To quote KLIATT's May 2000 review of the hardcover edition: Orphaned young Tom Falconer, age 13, is an innkeeper's assistant in Framingham, England in 1593. It's a pretty miserable existence, abruptly interrupted when a lawman sent by the queen mysteriously appears to take Tom away to London ... In the course of his adventures there, he happens to see one of Shakespeare's plays, and is immediately enchanted by the world of the theater. When he is offered a chance to be an actor, he seizes it, though the other people involved with the production of "The Devil and His Boy" seem shifty. They are to perform for Queen Elizabeth, and at the performance Tom realizes they mean to kill her. He bravely flings himself in front of the queen to save her, but his actions are misconstrued; he is rescued from the gallows in the nick of time by his friends. It turns out that he is the queen's illegitimate grandson (a possibility based on a historical rumor reported by Elizabeth herself, as the author discusses in an Afterword), and Tom ends up happily joining Shakespeare's company. This is a funny and suspenseful tale, full of intriguing details of the time and place. It offers rollicking, often fanciful fun (one minor character is a talking cat), despite the inclusion of some rather gory details ... It will please YAs who like their historical fiction leavened with humor. Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT
