- Human-animal relationships, Abandoned children, Girls, Fiction
From the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.
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Grave, epic, earnest and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Naomi Mitchison
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 147
- Publisher
- Penguin Books--Virago Press, Faber and Faber, Peapod Classics
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781931520140
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About Naomi Mitchison · 1897–1999
Scottish novelist and poet.
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