title: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels; City of Lost Souls
author:  Cassandra Clare 
description: Cassandra Clare is the #1<i>New York Times</i>and<i>USA TODAY</i>bestselling author of<i>Lady Midnight</i>,<i>Lord of Shadows</i>, and <i>Queen of Air and Darkness</i>, as well as the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and Infernal Devices trilogy. She is the coauthor of<i>The Bane Chronicles</i>with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson and<i>Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy</i>with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, and Robin Wasserman. Her books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and made into a feature film and a TV show. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts. Visit her at CassandraClare.com. Learn more about the world of the Shadowhunters at Shadowhunters.com.
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  THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
  
  
  **CITY  
  OF  
  BONES**
  
  
  CASSANDRA CLARE  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  WALKER  
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  _I have not slept._  
   _Between the acting of a dreadful thing_  
   _And the first motion, all the interim is_  
   _Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:_  
   _The Genius and the mortal instruments_  
   _Are then in council; and the state of man,_  
   _Like to a little kingdom, suffers then_  
   _The nature of an insurrection._
  
  
  —William Shakespeare, _Julius Caesar_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # I  
  DARK DESCENT
  
  
  
  
  
  _I sung of Chaos and eternal Night,  
  Taught by the heav—nly Muse to venture down  
  The dark descent, and up to reascend …_
  
  
  —John Milton, _Paradise Lost_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # 1  
  PANDEMONIUM
  
  
  “Y **OU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME,” THE BOUNCER SAID** , folding his arms across
  his massive chest. He stared down at the boy in the red zip-up jacket and
  shook his shaved head. “You can’t bring that thing in here.”
  
  
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