Willows Algernon Blackwood Annotated

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Algernon Blackwood: Willows Algernon Blackwood Annotated (2021, Independently Published)

English language

Published Sept. 27, 2021 by Independently Published.

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979-8-4763-2505-5
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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On the big maps this deserted area is painted in a fluffy blue, growing fainter in color as it leaves the banks, and across it may be seen in large straggling letters the word Sumpfe, meaning marshes. In high flood this great acreage of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grown islands is almost topped by the water, but in normal seasons the bushes bend and rustle in the free winds, showing their silver leaves to the sunshine in an ever-moving plain of bewildering beauty. These willows never attain to the dignity of trees; they have no rigid trunks; they remain humble …

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Die Horrorkonstruktion kam mir ein bisschen linkisch vor, vielleicht bin ich aber auch nur ein durch neuere Techniken verwöhntes Publikum, und das Buch ist immerhin angenehm kurz. Grundsätzliches Wohlwollen für das Setting (Angst beim Kanufahren auf der Donau, Misstrauen gegen Bäume und Sträucher). Es kommt ein Otter vor, ein Horror-Otter!

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