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Neverwhere, do autor Neil Gaiman, é o romance que acompanha a série de televisão com o mesmo nome transmitida pela BBC em 1996. [1] O livro foi lançado em Portugal em 2005 pela Editorial Presença com o título Neverwhere: Na Terra do Nada [2] e no Brasil pela editora Conrad com o título Lugar Nenhum. [3]
16 de set. de 1996 · 533,252 ratings29,770 reviews. Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. "Neverwhere" is the London of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
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Neverwhere is the companion novelisation written by English author Neil Gaiman of the television serial Neverwhere, written by Gaiman and devised by Lenny Henry. The plot and characters are exactly the same as in the series, with the exception that the novel form allowed Gaiman to expand and elaborate on certain elements of the story ...
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Richard Mayhew, a Scottish man living in London, encounters an injured girl named Door on the street one night. Despite his fiancée's protests he decides to help her; upon doing so he ceases to exist on Earth and becomes real only to the denizens of "London Below", whose inhabitants are generally invisible and non-existent to the people of "London ...
Richard Mayhew (Gary Bakewell) – a young businessman, who discovers the world of London Below one day after helping the injured Door recover in his flat.Door (Laura Fraser) – A young woman from London Below, the daughter of a noble family who were all murdered shortly before the beginning of the story. She possesses her family's innate ability to "...Mr. Croup (Hywel Bennett) – The talkative half of the pair of assassins, the Messrs. He is short, fat, and speaks in a pompous and verbose manner. Like his partner, Mr. Vandemar, he seems to be abl...Mr. Vandemar (Clive Russell) – Dull-witted, tall, and gangly, Vandemar is Croup's polar opposite. He does not speak much, and when he does, his statements are often laconic and blunt. He is quite b...Neverwhere was first broadcast on BBC Twofrom 12 September 1996. There are six half-hour episodes: 1. Door 2. Knightsbridge 3. Earl's Court to Islington 4. Blackfriars 5. Down Street 6. As Above, So Below
The idea for the story came from a conversation between Gaiman and Henry about a possible television series. Henry suggested a story with tribes of homeless people in London. Gaiman was initially reluctant to commit, as he feared that making the homeless appear "cool" might cause more young people to attempt to emulate the characters, but decided t...
Locations
1. Abbey Mills Pumping Stationwas used as the Angel Islington's lair. 2. The scene where Richard meets Old Bailey was filmed on the roof of the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras railway station. The hotel interior was also used as "Down Street". 3. The exteriors for the first Market were filmed at Battersea Power Station, though a different location was used for the interiors. HMS Belfastwas the scene of the second Market. 4. The scene where Richard saves a man from suicide was filmed on the...
The six episodes were released in the US and Canada to DVD as a two-disc set on 9 September 2005[citation needed] in conjunction with A&E Network. Despite the DVDs often being advertised as region 1, some of the actual discs are region zero.[citation needed] The BBC have released the series on DVD on 23 April 2007. The opening theme tune on the ori...
Novelisation
Neil Gaiman wrote a novelisationof the television series that was first released in 1996, during the television show's transmission. This was accompanied by a spoken word release on CD and cassette. The text was later re-written for the US market (Gaiman's publisher insisting that many of the references of London were too obscure for US tastes) and a third version is now available which combines elements of both earlier versions of the novel.
Graphic novel
A nine-issue graphic novel limited series began in June 2005, written by Mike Carey (who had worked on Lucifer, a spin-off from Gaiman's The Sandman), with art by Glenn Fabry.Vertigo changed a character, the Marquis De Carabas, that had been portrayed in the TV series and on the radio as a man from the African Diaspora into a creature with a black skin tone not seen in the real world. The comic is an adaptation inspired by the novelisation, rather than the original TV series. Thus the charact...
Stage
In 2006, a world-premiere stage adaptation of the novel, developed by writer and actress Eve Butler and director Sasha Travis, was produced by the Savannah Actor's Theatre in Savannah, Georgia. In 2008, a stage adaptation of the novel was created and performed by the Actors Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois. In 2010, Lifeline Theatre in Chicago performed an adaptation written by Robert Kauzlaric.The eight-week run proved so successful that it was extended another four weeks. The play was viewed...
Since at least 2014, Gaiman said a sequel to the book titled The Seven Sisters was a possibility,later confirming in 2017 that he was in fact writing it. "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back" is a short story written by Neil Gaiman and set in the Neverwhere universe. It was published in Rogues, a short story anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Geo...
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Neverwhere. Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke. Several hours later, the girl is gone too.
National Bestseller. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a novel of bold creativity and narrative genius that brings to life a world most people could never even dream of―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee.
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Neverwhere is the home of the Lady Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the persons responsible for her family's slaughter and, in doing so, preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that ...
