Twilight Land
Howard Pyle
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Description
Howard Pyle's Twilight Land opens with the storyteller already inside that country, unable to say how he arrived. No sun scorches there, no rain muddies the road, and no wind blows dust into a traveller's eyes. All is sweet and quiet and ready for bed.
Pyle drifts along the high-road like a soap bubble before the wind, past trees, bushes, and the mill-pond. Birds sing their good-night song and frogs pipe in the purple-gray dusk. The contents promise sixteen tales, from The Stool of Fortune and The Talisman of Solomon to The Salt of Life. The introduction casts the whole book as a walk into a storyteller's dusk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Howard Pyle |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 396 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |