Greenmantle
Charles de Lint
Not far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, or a goat, or a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summoned by the music of the pipes or a fire of bones on Midsummer's Evening. He is chased by the hunt and shadowed by the wild girl.Greenmantle is not only a gripping thriller but also an introduction to the most profound philosophical issues in literature what stories are for and how they create us. ...de Lint shows an awareness of what he's doing that makes his fiction not just a damn fine read but also a clear map of the road that fantasy follows through the human mind. ...with Greenmantle, he shows that, far from being mere escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time.—The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1989Charles de Lint is one of my favorite fantasy writers. His juxtapositions of classical folklore with modern settings are...
سال:
2015
زبان:
english
فائل:
EPUB, 704 KB
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english, 2015