Wood Magic - Couverture souple

Jefferies, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185326153X ISBN 13 : 9781853261534

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Bevis is a small and solitary boy who lives in a magical world of talking animals. He becomes involved in feuds and intrigues of the farmyard and woodland animals in an attempt to dethrone their king, Knapchack the magpie.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt legs, and galloped away. Then the mare whinnied and galloped too, and the ground shook under her heavy hoofs. The cows lifted their heads from gathering the grass close round the slender bennets, and wondered why any one could be so foolish as to rush about, when there was plenty to eat and no hurry. The cunning deceitful butterfly, so soon as Bevis came near, turned aside and went along a furrow. Bevis, running in the furrow, caught his foot in the long creepers of the crowfoot, and fell down bump, and pricked his hand with a thistle. Up he jumped again, red as a peony, and shouting in his rage, ran on so quickly that he nearly overtook the butterfly. But they were now nearer the other hedge. The butterfly, frightened at the shouting and Bevis's resolution, rose over the brambles, and Bevis stopping short flung his hat at him. The hat did not hit the butterfly, but the wind it made puffed him round, and so frightened him, that he flew up half as high as the elms, and went into the next field.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Wood Magic (1881) introduces his child-hero, Bevis, a small child on a farm near a small lake, called the "Longpond", clearly Coate Farm and Coate Reservoir. Bevis's exploration of the garden and neighbouring fields brings him into contact with the country's birds and animals, who can speak to him, as can even inanimate parts of nature, such as the stream and the wind. Part of the book is a depiction of a small child's interaction with the natural world, but much is a cynical animal fable of a revolt against the magpie Capchack, the local tyrant.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 185326153X
• ISBN 13: 9781853261534
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible