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The first three Forgotten Books are pictured here, together with the short story, “ The Rose of Fire,” which is available as a free download by clicking here.

While I can’t comment on word-to-word accuracy, more than a few phrases carried an anachronistic din would a well-raised teenager in the 1920s (no matter how feisty) speaking to an older man thusly – “‘I’m cold and my bum’s turned to stone …,'” much less tell him to “‘shut up'”? Original readers, please do chime in.īut back to order. For us non-original text readers, the series is translated by Lucia Graves, the daughter of renowned English poet and novelist Robert Graves ( I, Claudius). But before I offer two preventative options, some quick background: the full Cemetery of Forgotten Books by internationally bestselling Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a series of four volumes, plus a single (thus far) short story. In spite of making a list and checking it twice, thrice, and more, I read these in about as ‘wrong’ order as I possibly could.