{"product_id":"the-night-of-wishes-or-the-satanarchaeolidealcohellish-notion-potion-hardcover","title":"The Night of Wishes: Or the Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Ende\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRegina Kehn\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eHeike Schwarzbauer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Neverending Story\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that reminds us that \"magic--be it good or bad--is no simple matter.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's New Year's Eve at the Villa Nightmare but Beelzebub Preposteror is in no mood for celebration. As the Shadow Sorcery Minister, Preposteror has a duty to perform a certain number of evil deeds in service to the Minister of Pitch Darkness. But this year, to his horror, he's nowhere near meeting that quota. Preposteror has all but given up when who should make an unexpected visit but his aunt, the witch Tyrannia Vampirella. She has come with a diabolical proposal that just might be the solution to Preposterer's dilemma: together they will brew the fabled Notion Potion, \"one of the most ancient and powerful evil spells in the universe,\" and their every evil wish will be granted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe only thing that stands in their way is a most unlikely team--a cat named Mauricio di Mauro and a raven known as Jacob Scribble, who have just hours to thwart the plans of their sorcerer masters and save the world from destruction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Ende\u003c\/b\u003e (1929-1995) was born into an artistic family in Bavaria, Germany. As a young man during the Second World War, he joined the anti-Nazi resistance rather than enlist in the army, as his teenage classmates were then being required to do. After the war, he finished high school and enrolled in drama school, hoping for a career as a playwright and actor. For the next few years he worked in regional theater and wrote plays and cabaret scripts. He also met his future wife, the actor Ingeborg Hoffmann. Ende found surprise success with the 1960 publication of his first children's book, \u003ci\u003eJim Button\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLuke the Engine Driver\u003c\/i\u003e. He would go on to write many plays, essays, poems, and books--including \u003ci\u003eMomo\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) and \u003ci\u003eThe Neverending Story \u003c\/i\u003e(1979)--which have been translated into more than forty languages and sold millions of copies around the world. He lived with his first wife in Italy for sixteen years until her death, and traveled extensively in Japan with his second wife, Mariko Satō, who was also his Japanese translator. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eHeike Schwarzbauer\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRick Takvorian\u003c\/b\u003e have collaborated on two translations of books by the German literary critic and novelist Christa Wolf, \u003ci\u003e Accident: A Day's News\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Remains and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRegina Kehn\u003c\/b\u003e has illustrated editions of \u003ci\u003eThe Nutcracker and the Mouse King\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAli Baba and the Forty Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as books by Michael Ende, Daniil Kharms, Cornelia Funke, Otfried Preussler, and Franz Kafka, among others. She is based in Hamburg, Germany.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770373079328,"sku":"9781681371887","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dd94360e10d258db53a3b952be60d7d1.webp?v=1780370380","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-night-of-wishes-or-the-satanarchaeolidealcohellish-notion-potion-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}