THE GREEN CHILD
Read, Herbert
Published by Grey Walls Press, [London], 1945
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Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-137 [138: colophon] [139-140: blank], color illustrations by Felix Kelly, title page printed in green and black, publisher's gray cloth, spine panel stamped in green and gold. Second edition. "A remarkable double utopia in which two visions of ideal human life -- one a Latin-American political utopia, the other a mystical, underground realm in which human aspirations are transcended -- mirror one another, comprising together a critique and dramatic metaphor of the utopian impulse as a whole." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 993. "A philosophical novel whose hero, having grown disenchanted with the imperfections of the quasi-utopian state which he has established in South America, returns to England where . he discovers a mysterious green child [and] a truly utopian mode of existence." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-310. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-47; (1981) 2-82; (1987) 2-91; (1995) 2-101; and (2004) II-889. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1373. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 802. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 153. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 156-57. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 181. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 208. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 258. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 654-60. Bleiler (1978), p. 164. Reginald 12066. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with mild wear at edges and some light general dust soiling. (#171663). Seller Inventory # 171663
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Title: THE GREEN CHILD
Publisher: Grey Walls Press, [London]
Publication Date: 1945
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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The Green Child
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Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
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The Green Child Herbert Read and Kenneth Rexroth
Seller: Vintage Book Shoppe, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
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The Green Child
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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The Green Child
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Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Re-issue. Covers are tanned on spine and rear cover. Undated publication, NDP208, though slip of Canadian distributor, which is laid-in, dates to 1969. Only novel of Herbert Read originally published in 1935. Seller Inventory # 11106
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Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good Condition. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. 194pp. Content clean, bright and sound with paper lightly tanned. Seller Inventory # 007100
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The Green Child
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "[B]eautifully written.a triumph of delicate and suggestive mystification."-The New York Times First published in 1935, The Green Child is Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else, this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a Utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South American pampas and then to a mysterious and eternal underground of caves.In genre The Green Child is perhaps closest to the French conte philosophique, yet the word "philosophical" suggests the abstruse, whereas this is a very moving and exciting story, alive with the poetry of living, and, at the same time, with a strange kind of other-worldly suspense. In his introduction Kenneth Rexroth speaks of the book's "unearthly, hypnotic radiance," and Graham Greene has said of it: "here Read conveys the private sense of glory, the same sense of glory that impelled Christian writers to picture the City of God." T. S. Eliot once told the publisher that he considered The Green Child to be one of the finest examples of English prose style of the century. Seller Inventory # SONG0811201724
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