The worlds at the end of the world
Exactly 20 years after the first edition, Ulysses Moore returns with the 20th volume of the series. The one where it all begins.
THE WORLDS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Ulysses Moore is eleven years old and has no desire to go to Eton, the most prestigious boarding school in England. He wants to stay with his friends in the streets of London, explore abandoned buildings, race wooden carts straight into the Thames, and summon the courage to tell his cousin Daffodille how he feels. Instead, he’s sent to his grandparents’ house to study under a mysterious professor who will tutor him in the coming months.
But there’s a twist: the professor not only taught his mother when she was alive but also knows some of the Moore family’s secrets—about their ancestors and a lost house called Villa Argo, from which tales emerge that seem connected to the invisible side of the world.
Illustrations from the original editions and logo: Iacopo Bruno
Illustrations for the 20th-anniversary edition: Alida Pintus
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
