Ransom Riggs - Hollow City

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“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. Publishers Weekly called it “an enjoyable, eccentric read, distinguished by well-developed characters, a believable Welsh setting, and some very creepy monsters.”
This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerizing) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages.

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Hollow City

Copyright Copyright 2014 by Ransom Riggs All rights reserved No part of - фото 1

Copyright

Copyright © 2014 by Ransom Riggs

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Number: 2013914959

eISBN: 978-1-59474-620-8

Designed by Doogie Horner

Cover photograph courtesy of John Van Noate, Rex USA, and the Everett Collection

Production management by John J. McGurk

Quirk Books

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Philadelphia, PA 19106

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Dedication

FOR TAHEREH

Epigraph And lo towards us coming in a boat An old man grizzled with the - фото 2

Epigraph

And lo! towards us coming in a boat
An old man, grizzled with the hair of eld,
Moaning: “Woe unto you, debased souls!

Hope nevermore to look upon the heavens.
I come to lead you to the other shore;
Into eternal darkness; into fire and frost.

And thou, that yonder standest, living soul,
Withdraw from these people, who are dead!”
But he saw that I did not withdraw …

—Dante’s Inferno , Canto III

PECULIAR PERSONAE

PECULIAR PERSONAE JACOB PORTMAN Our hero who can see and sense - фото 3PECULIAR PERSONAE JACOB PORTMAN Our hero who can see and sense hollowgast ABRAHAM PORTMAN - фото 4

JACOB PORTMAN Our hero who can see and sense hollowgast ABRAHAM PORTMAN - фото 5

JACOB PORTMAN

Our hero, who can see and sense hollowgast

ABRAHAM PORTMAN DECEASED Jacobs grandfather killed by a hollowgast EMMA - фото 6

ABRAHAM PORTMAN

(DECEASED)

Jacob’s grandfather, killed by a hollowgast

EMMA BLOOM A girl who can make fire with her hands formerly involved with - фото 7

EMMA BLOOM

A girl who can make fire with her hands, formerly involved with Jacob’s grandfather

BRONWYN BRUNTLEY An unusually strong girl MILLARD NULLINGS An invisible boy - фото 8

BRONWYN BRUNTLEY

An unusually strong girl

MILLARD NULLINGS An invisible boy scholar of all things peculiar HORACE - фото 9

MILLARD NULLINGS

An invisible boy, scholar of all things peculiar

HORACE SOMNUSSON A boy who suffers from premonitory visions and dreams OLIVE - фото 10

HORACE SOMNUSSON

A boy who suffers from premonitory visions and dreams

OLIVE ABROHOLOS ELEPHANTA A girl who is lighter than air ENOCH OCONNOR A - фото 11

OLIVE ABROHOLOS ELEPHANTA

A girl who is lighter than air

ENOCH OCONNOR A boy who can animate the dead for brief periods of time HUGH - фото 12

ENOCH O’CONNOR

A boy who can animate the dead for brief periods of time

HUGH APISTON A boy who commands and protects the many bees that live in his - фото 13

HUGH APISTON

A boy who commands and protects the many bees that live in his stomach

FIONA FRAUENFELD A silent girl with a peculiar talent for making plants grow - фото 14

FIONA FRAUENFELD

A silent girl with a peculiar talent for making plants grow

CLAIRE DENSMORE A girl with an extra mouth in the back of her head the - фото 15

CLAIRE DENSMORE

A girl with an extra mouth in the back of her head; the youngest of Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children

ALMA LEFAY PEREGRINE Ymbryne shapeshifter manipulator of time headmistress - фото 16

ALMA LEFAY PEREGRINE

Ymbryne, shape-shifter, manipulator of time; headmistress of Cairnholm’s loop; arrested in bird form

ESMERELDA AVOCET An ymbryne whose loop was raided by the corrupted kidnapped - фото 17

ESMERELDA AVOCET

An ymbryne whose loop was raided by the corrupted; kidnapped by wights

NONPECULIAR PERSONAE

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FRANKLIN PORTMAN

Jacob’s father; bird hobbyist, wannabe writer

MARYANN PORTMAN

Jacob’s mother; heiress to Florida’s second-largest drugstore chain

RICKY PICKERING

Jacob’s only normal friend

DOCTOR GOLAN

(DECEASED)

A wight who posed as a psychiatrist to deceive Jacob and his family; later killed by Jacob

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

(DECEASED)

Essayist, lecturer, poet

PART I

CHAPTER I W e rowed out through the harbor past bobbing boats - фото 20

CHAPTER I

W e rowed out through the harbor past bobbing boats weeping rust from their - фото 21

W e rowed out through the harbor past bobbing boats weeping rust from their - фото 22

W e rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to stare frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be. We were ten children and one bird in three small and unsteady boats, rowing with quiet intensity straight out to sea, the only safe harbor for miles receding quickly behind us, craggy and magical in the blue-gold light of dawn. Our goal, the rutted coast of mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon.

We rowed past the old lighthouse, tranquil in the distance, which only last night had been the scene of so many traumas. It was there that, with bombs exploding around us, we had nearly drowned, nearly been torn apart by bullets; that I had taken a gun and pulled its trigger and killed a man, an act still incomprehensible to me; that we had lost Miss Peregrine and got her back again—snatched from the steel jaws of a submarine—though the Miss Peregrine who was returned to us was damaged, in need of help we didn’t know how to give. She perched now on the stern of our boat, watching the sanctuary she’d created slip away, more lost with every oar stroke.

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