The black sorceress Plague-del-Cake, whose name they dread even to utter aloud, climbing to power, destroys the brilliant magicians one by one. Among her victims is the remarkable white magician Leopold Grotter. His daughter Tanya, by some unknown means, manages to avoid death, but on the tip of her nose, a mysterious birthmark remains for life… Plague-del-Cake mysteriously disappears, and Tanya Grotter turns out to be abandoned to the family of businessman Durnev, her distant relative… She lives with this extremely unpleasant family until the age of ten, and then finds herself in the unique world of the Tibidox School of Magic…
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Дмитрий Емец. Tanya Grotter And The Magic Double Bass
Prologue
Chapter 1. A Baby in a Case
Chapter 2. The Gold Sword
Chapter 3. The Mysterious Double Bass and Lisper the Rabbit
Chapter 4. Forgeli Botchli?
Chapter 5. Bab-Yagun
Chapter 6. The Dead Eye
Chapter 7. Tibidox
Chapter 8. Tower of Ghosts
Chapter 9. The Scroll of Predictions
Chapter 10. Veterinary Magic
Chapter 11. The Magic Hair
Chapter 12. Gyes, Cottus, and Briareus
Chapter 13. The Protection Potion
Chapter 14. The Sinister Gates
Glossary
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On a bright autumnal morning when everything in the world appeared harshly vivid and disgracefully happy and the foliage on the trees shone as if it was doused with golden tinsel, a stooping tall person in a grey coat came out of the entrance of a multi-storey building on Rublev Road.
His name was Herman Durnev, the director of the firm Second-Hand Socks and the father of a year-old daughter Pipa (short for Penelope).
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Chernomorov was embarrassed. Nevertheless, one can hardly say very.
“Yes, I understand what you want to say: someone among the students, especially from the “black,” could see and make a laughing stock of me. I’ll say: academician, laureate of the award of Magic Suspenders, head of the legendary Tibidox flying on a tattered sofa with plucked chicken wings… A sofa, from which copper springs stick out… It was already late, and no one saw me… And how? Would someone really look out the window, having heard nothing but a little rumble… Mm… I even almost ran into the stained-glass panel of the Hall of Two Elements, but if the glass also crumbled, then through the course of time… Nevertheless it was seven hundred years old…”
