Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy (165 page)
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Authors: Patrick Ness
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Fantasy & Magic, #Social Issues, #Violence
PATRICK NESS
is the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, which includes
The Knife of Never Letting Go,
winner of the
Guardian
Children’s Fiction Prize;
The Ask and the Answer,
winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award; and
Monsters of Men
, winner of the Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of the highly-acclaimed novel
A Monster Calls
, and he is a literary critic for the
Guardian.
He says, “Even in a society where we’re constantly being told to ‘be ourselves,’ the pressure to conform is terrible, especially for the young. If the Chaos Walking trilogy is about anything, it’s about identity, finding out who you are. How do you stay an individual when the pressure to conform, to change who you are, is actually life-threatening?” Born in Virginia, Patrick Ness lives in London.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
The novels in this collection were previously published individually by Candlewick Press.
Cover image copyright © 2011 by CGTextures
The Knife of Never Letting Go copyright © 2008 by Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer copyright © 2009 by Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men copyright © 2010 by Patrick Ness
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First electronic edition in this format 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
is available for the hardcover editions.
The Knife of Never Letting Go: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2007052334
ISBN 978-0-7636-3931-0 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7636-4576-2 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5216-6 (electronic)
The Ask and the Answer: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2009007329
ISBN 978-0-7636-4490-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7636-4837-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5217-3 (electronic)
Monsters of Men: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2009049727 ISBN 978-0-7636-4751-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5665-2 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5211-1 (electronic)
ISBN 978-0-7636-6170-0 (electronic collection)
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - The Hole in the Noise
Chapter 2 - Prentisstown
Chapter 3 - Ben and Cillian
Chapter 4 - Don’t Think It
Chapter 5 - The Things You Know
Chapter 6 - The Knife in Front of Me
Chapter 7 - If There Was a Girl
Chapter 8 - The Choices of a Knife
Chapter 9 - When Luck Ain’t With You
Chapter 10 - FOod and Fire
Chapter 11 - The Book of No Answers
Chapter 12 - The Bridge
Chapter 13 - Viola
Chapter 14 - The Wrong End of a Gun
Chapter 15 - Brother in Suffering
Chapter 16 - The Night of No Apologies
Chapter 17 - Encounter in an Orchard
Chapter 18 - Farbranch
Chapter 19 - Further Choices of a Knife
Chapter 20 - Army of Men
Chapter 21 - The Wider World
Chapter 22 - Wilf and The Sea of Things
Chapter 23 - A Knife is Only As Good As the One Who Wields It
Chapter 24 - The Death of the Worthless Coward
Chapter 25 - Killer
Chapter 26 - The End of All Things
Chapter 27 - On We Go
Chapter 28 - The Smell of Roots
Chapter 29 - Aaron in A Thousand Ways
Chapter 30 - A Boy Called Todd
Chapter 31 - The Wicked are Punished
Chapter 32 - Downriver
Chapter 33 - Carbonel Downs
Chapter 34 - Oh Never Leave Me
Chapter 35 - The Law
Chapter 36 - Answers to Askings
Chapter 37 - What’s The Point?
Chapter 38 - I Heard A Maiden Call
Chapter 39 - The Falls
Chapter 40 - The Sacrifice
Chapter 41 - If One of Us Falls
Chapter 42 - Last Road To Haven
Chapter 1 - The Old Mayor
Chapter 2 - The Foot Upon the Neck
Chapter 3 - The New Life
Chapter 4 - The Making of a New World
Chapter 5 - Viola Wakes
Chapter 6 - Sides of the Story
Chapter 7 - Mistress Coyle
Chapter 8 - The Newest Apprentice
Chapter 9 - War Is Over
Chapter 10 - In God’s House
Chapter 11 - Saved Yer Life
Chapter 12 - Betrayal
Chapter 13 - Splinters
Chapter 14 - The Second Bomb
Chapter 15 - Locked In
Chapter 16 - Who You Are
Chapter 17 - Hard Labour
Chapter 18 - To Live Is to Fight
Chapter 19 - What You Don’t Know
Chapter 20 - Rubble
Chapter 21 - The Mine
Chapter 22 - 1017
Chapter 23 - Something’s Coming
Chapter 24 - Prison Walls
Chapter 25 - The Night It Happens
Chapter 26 - The Answer
Part V - The Office of the Ask
Chapter 27 - The Way We Live Now
Chapter 28 - Soldier
Chapter 29 - The Business of Asking
Chapter 30 - The Band
Chapter 31 - Numbers and Letters
Chapter 32 - Final Preparations
Chapter 33 - Fathers and Sons
Chapter 34 - Last Chance
Part VI - The Ask and the Answer
Chapter 35 - Viola Is Asked
Chapter 36 - Defeat
Chapter 37 - The Lieutenant
Chapter 38 - March to the Cathedral
Chapter 39 - Yer Own Worst Enemy
Chapter 40 - Nothing Changes. Everything Changes
Chapter 41 - The Moment of Davy Prentiss
Chapter 42 - Endgame
Two Battles
The Calm
The Storm
Down in the Valley
Closing In
Speaking with the Enemy
The Peace Process
The Delegation
Bargaining
The Days of Glory
Separations
The Final Battle
The Future of the World
