Jon Colfer Artemis Fowl

Jon (Owen) Colfer Is a famous Irish writer. His first book, Benny and Omar, he wrote in 1998. In parallel with writing, he worked as a teacher in primary school. But a real fame he brought a series of books about Artemis Faul, a young prodigy and heir to a criminal dynasty. The first book of the series was published in 2001. Over time, Colfer left teaching to fully devote himself to literature.

Artemis Fowl - the last representative of the old criminalDynasty Faul, conducting its machinations around the world. Honest and dishonest ways Faula managed to make a huge fortune. The family of Faul has been the dynasty of Butler for many centuries.

Artemis (whose full name is - Artemis Foul II) - not a simple boy, but a real child prodigy,He has a tremendous intelligence and remarkable ability for languages. However, brilliant mental abilities are combined in it with a terrible character and a lack of social skills.

In the universe of novels about Artemis Faul, the world is divided into world of "tops" (people) and underworld. Underworld is inhabited by magical creatures fromfairy tales and legends: elves, gnomes, goblins, centaurs, pixies, sprites, trolls. In the first book, Artemis learns about the existence of magical creatures and decides to earn extra money.

For this he abducts Alfi Minor, an officer of the special police corps of the lower levels. For her return from requires a ransom - a huge amount of gold. Of course, the magic people will not part with gold so easily and will try to return Alfie in other ways. Thus begins the confrontation between Artemis and his assistants, the bodyguard Butlers and his sisters Juliette, with the inhabitants of the underworld.

At the moment, the series about the adventures of Artemis Faul consists of eight books:

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  Artemis Faul. Intelligence versus magic (2001)


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  Artemis Faul. Mission to the Arctic (2002)


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  Artemis Faul. The code of eternity (2003)


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  Artemis Faul. The X-Files (2004)


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  Artemis Faul. Retaliation (2005)


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  Artemis Faul. The Lost World (2006)


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  Artemis Faul. The Paradox of Time (2008)


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  Artemis Faul. Complex of Atlantis (2010)


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  Artemis Faul. The Last Guard (2012)

Disney was going to create a film based on the first two books, Jon Colfer was to take part in the creation of the script. However, information about the film has not been received for a long time, so it is assumed that the shooting of the picture fell through.

Quotations from the book

"Some hated animals so much that they were vegetarians"

"Zherebkins threw his foot on his leg - a tricky trick for sitting on a centaur chair"

"You should not cause a feeling of hostility to the kidnapper. Suddenly he has an unstable psyche? "

"I'll go to the captive."

"Do you think it will help?"

"No, but I must help you."

"Yes, I admit that once I was attracted to thoughts of world domination, but who among us did not cherish dreams of wiping mankind off the face of the earth and populating the planet with its equals?"

"Why do not you go to Reykjavikto spend part of the exorbitant amount you wiped off me for using for a couple of hours of your, frankly, third-rate restaurant, and maybe find some lonely stump, ready to listen with pleasure to your sorrowful tale? "

"One witty sixth grader from the school of St. Bartleby, the heir to the hotel empire, nicknamed Artemis Levonozhka Faul - they say, both have left and he can not get on the ball of any of them. For a week, Artemis tolerated, and then bought a network of hotels, which the humorist assumed to inherit. The mockery stopped instantly. "