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The original representation of the Land of Toys mixes the aspects of a morality tale with those of social critique.. Children (depending upon the translation of the original Italian, the novel has included both boys and girls or only boys) are lured there by the Coachman with the promise of never having to go to school or work again and being able to spend their whole time having fun, and the ...
George Torode (30 September 1946 – 20 April 2010) was a Guernsey author, comedian and radio host.He was best known for his series of writings called the Donkey books, [1] which collect stories by and about Guernsey people (the nickname for Guernsey people is Les ânes – "Donkeys")
Patricia Lynch (4 June 1894– 1 September 1972) [1] was an Irish children's writer and a journalist. [2] [3] She was the author of some 48 novels and 200 short stories.She is best known for blending Irish rural life and fantasy fiction as in The Turf-Cutter's Donkey which was illustrated by Jack B. Yeats.
American writer David Vann’s 2008 book “Legend of a Suicide” is a striking, classification-averse work — not quite fiction or memoir, novel or short story collection — that ultimately ...
In John Steinbeck's 1932 novel The Pastures of Heaven, one character regards Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes as one of the greatest works of English literature and names his son Robert Louis. Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were inspired by Stevenson in choosing the title of his 1962 book Travels with Charley. [6]
Director Jerzy Skolimowski makes a stunning return to filmmaking with this homage to — and departure from — Robert Bresson's 'Au Hasard Balthazar.'
Island (Huxley novel) Island (Rogers novel) Island (novel series) The Island of Adventure; The Island of Eternal Love; Island of Exiles; The Island of Sheep; Island of the Blue Dolphins; The Island of the Day Before; Island of the Sequined Love Nun; The Island Queen (novel) The Island (Benchley novel) The Islander (Rylant novel) The Islanders ...
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