La porta del tempo
core novel 2004 Ulysses Moore
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  IT |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (7,825 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9788838432774 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Twins Jason and Julia Covenant, aged eleven, move with their family to Villa Argo, a large house on a cliff above Kilmore Cove, a quiet village in Cornwall. The gardener, Nestor, tells them about the house and its past, and they make friends with a neighbour, Rick Banner. In one room they find a scratched, charred wooden door that has lost its keys and is meant to stay closed. When their parents leave for London, the children are left alone in the house with strange noises overhead and the door in front of them. They begin to ask why someone wanted it hidden, and what lies behind it.
Where it sits
- Universe: Ulysses Moore
- Series: Ulysses Moore core; position 1 of 19 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Pierdomenico Baccalario
Notes
- The first edition was published by Edizioni Piemme in 2004.
- From the series record (Ulysses Moore): Nineteen Italian middle-grade fantasy novels set around the Doors of Time in Kilmore Cove, in three cycles plus a prequel.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Ulysses Moore: position 1 of 19: next La bottega delle mappe dimenticate (2005)
Sources
- Italian Wikipedia: Ulysses Moore (serie di romanzi)
- Il Battello a Vapore: Ulysses Moore
- Libraccio product page
- Piemme first-edition excerpt (PDF)
- Libraccio
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