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Is part of The Old Kingdom Garth Nix , 1995- series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Sabriel
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Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

Notes

  • Dedication: To my family and friends

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has Japanese and Chinese translations.
  • This work is affiliated with Australian Fantasy Fiction and Japan because it has a Japanese translation.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 1995 .
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      Extent: 328p.
      Reprinted: 1996
      ISBN: 0732251230, 0732257441
      Series: y separately published work icon Moonstone Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 1995-1997 Z922465 1995 series - publisher children's young adult fantasy science fiction
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Extent: xi, 292p.p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      ISBN: 0060273224, 0060273232
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Americas,      :       HarperTrophy ,       1996 .
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      Extent: 491p.
      ISBN: 0064471837 (pbk)
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2001 .
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      Extent: 288p.
      Edition info: New Australian ed.
      Description: map.
      ISBN: 1865080403
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Collins ,       2002 .
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      Extent: 368p.
      ISBN: 0007137303
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2003 .
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      Extent: 416p.
      ISBN: 1741140404
    • London,
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      Extent: 366p.
      ISBN: 0007137311 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Extent: 311p.
      ISBN: 0060575816
    • East Melbourne, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Allen and Unwin , 2006 .
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      Extent: 396p.
      ISBN: 9781741750188 (pbk)
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    y separately published work icon The Old Kingdom Chronicles Garth Nix , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1670329 2009 selected work novel novella young adult fantasy Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2013 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781741769586, 1741769582
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Americas,      :       HarperCollins (United States) ,       2014 .
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      Extent: 311, 29p.
      Edition info: Rev. Ed.
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      • Includes excerpts from Lirael, Across the Wall, and Clariel.
      ISBN: 9780062315557 (pbk), 0062315552, 1471404005 (ebook), 9781471404009 (ebook)
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      Americas,      :       Turtleback Books ,       2014 .
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      Extent: 352p.
      Description: illus., map
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      • Published 3 June 2014.
      ISBN: 0606354999, 9780606354998
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2021 .
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      Extent: 392p.
      Edition info: 25th Anniversary Edition
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      • Published August 2021
      ISBN: 9781760878214
Alternative title: Das Siebte Tor
Language: German
    • Munich,
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      Extent: 396p.
      ISBN: 345317898X
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Works about this Work

Nix on Way to the Big Screen 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 87 no. 9 2008; (p. 23)
The Theme of Premature Burial in Garth Nix's Early Novels Alice Mills , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 16 no. 1 2006; (p. 51-57) This article looks at three early novels by Garth Nix, The Ragwitch (1990), Sabriel (1995), Shade's Children (1997) through the context of Freud's 'uncanny' and Carl Jung's work on rebirth and individuation. Tracing the theme of premature burial through the texts, Mills draws together the pessimistic Freudian view of the 'uncanny' and the more positive and heroic path of individuation which Jung put forward, to demonstrate how Nix incoporates these two different understandings of the human psyche into his narratives and manages to attain a level of balance between them both. In terms of premature burial, both Freud and Jung 'agree that the tomb is symbolically the domain of the monstrous mother' and the site where monstrous rebirths occur as well as a site of repression. Mills argues that Nix's novels succeed in blending together two world views and create a truly successful hero, capable of entering the underworld (tomb) and at the same time escaping the paralysis and distintergation of identity that premature burial engenders. (pp.56-57).
[Review] Sabriel 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 2 2001; (p. 83)
— Review of Sabriel Garth Nix , 1995 single work novel
Fixity and Flow in Garth Nix's Sabriel Alice Mills , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 11 no. 3 2001; (p. 15-23) Mill's reads Garth Nix's fantasy novel Sabriel using Frued's notion of the 'uncanny' to explore the contradictory and paradoxical use of water as a metaphor for life and death in the novel. Mill's maps out how the novel subverts the typical pattern of the quest narrative in a number of ways, however she argues that while the imagery 'is not reducible to binary opposites', essentially 'the world of Sabriel is morally simple' (p.19). Furthermore, she states that in this novel, the return of the repressed signifies the 'uncanny return of the father' while the underlying pattern is one of 'daughters assuming the father's functions' and as such, the representation of women in the text works to reinforce the 'inherently ancillary role' alloctaed to women in a male-dominated culture. (pp.15,19).
Garth Nix John Cohen , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 42 no. 2 1998; (p. 11)
[Review] Sabriel Leonie McIlvenny , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 30)
— Review of Sabriel Garth Nix , 1995 single work novel
Reviews Bill Congreve , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 17 1996; (p. 80-81)
— Review of Sabriel Garth Nix , 1995 single work novel
Armies from The Land of Death Peter Nicholls , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 184 1996; (p. 63-64)
— Review of Sabriel Garth Nix , 1995 single work novel ; Enchanter Sara Douglass , 1996 single work novel ; Battleaxe Sara Douglass , 1995 single work novel
[Review] Sabriel Stella Lees , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 3 no. 3 1995; (p. 37, 39)
— Review of Sabriel Garth Nix , 1995 single work novel ; Polymer Sally Rogers-Davidson , 1995 single work novel
[Review] Sabriel Howard George , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 39 no. 3 1995; (p. 35)
— Review of Sabriel Garth Nix , 1995 single work novel
Know the Author : Garth Nix Kerry White , 1997 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 12 no. 4 1997; (p. 10-12)
Garth Nix John Cohen , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 42 no. 2 1998; (p. 11)
The Theme of Premature Burial in Garth Nix's Early Novels Alice Mills , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 16 no. 1 2006; (p. 51-57) This article looks at three early novels by Garth Nix, The Ragwitch (1990), Sabriel (1995), Shade's Children (1997) through the context of Freud's 'uncanny' and Carl Jung's work on rebirth and individuation. Tracing the theme of premature burial through the texts, Mills draws together the pessimistic Freudian view of the 'uncanny' and the more positive and heroic path of individuation which Jung put forward, to demonstrate how Nix incoporates these two different understandings of the human psyche into his narratives and manages to attain a level of balance between them both. In terms of premature burial, both Freud and Jung 'agree that the tomb is symbolically the domain of the monstrous mother' and the site where monstrous rebirths occur as well as a site of repression. Mills argues that Nix's novels succeed in blending together two world views and create a truly successful hero, capable of entering the underworld (tomb) and at the same time escaping the paralysis and distintergation of identity that premature burial engenders. (pp.56-57).
Nix on Way to the Big Screen 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 87 no. 9 2008; (p. 23)
An Eidolon Interview with Garth Nix Steven Paulsen (interviewer), 1996 single work interview
— Appears in: Eidolon : The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy , Spring no. 22-23 1996; (p. 33-41) Garth Nix discusses his career as a writer of science fiction.
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