The Wonder Clock (Illustrated) - Softcover

Pyle, Howard

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9781520883267: The Wonder Clock (Illustrated)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1520883269 ISBN 13: 9781520883267

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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An illustrated collection of fairy tales. With tales of the "Wonder Clock" to represent all 24 hours of the day. With over 100 Whimsical beautifully detailed drawings this feast for eyes is a must own for those who are fans of Howard Pyles work. A blend of Grimm's Fairy tales meets Aesop Fables, each of the 24 stories in this book is unique and entirely enchanting.

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From the Back Cover:

"Pyle was one of the late nineteenth century writers who helped invent the fairy tale novel." ―Jane Yolen

Famous and influential as a preeminent illustrator, Howard Pyle was also a gifted writer beloved by millions ― young and old ― for his endearing and enchanting fairy tales. The Wonder Clock is a delightful, magical collection of whimsical stories: twenty-four stories for twenty-four hours. And each a timeless masterpiece. Peopled with jolly kings and queens, lovely princesses and evil witches, sly foxes and mischievous ravens, ogres and giants, dashing princes and nasty dragons, these are old fashioned fairly tales in the best and most beautiful sense that can be enjoyed by readers of any age.

This edition also includes Pyle's dazzling illustrations.

About the Author:

Howard Pyle (1853–1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration called the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term the Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz (later called the Brandywine School). Some of his more famous students were Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Allen Tupper True, Anna Whelan Betts, Ethel Franklin Betts, Harvey Dunn, Philip R. Goodwin, and Jessie Willcox Smith. His 1883 classic The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print to this day, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur that cemented his reputation. He wrote an original novel, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His novel Men of Iron was made into a movie in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth. Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy to study mural painting in 1910, and died there in 1911 of sudden kidney infection (Bright's Disease).

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