Little, BigHarper Collins, 2002 - 538 pagina's "John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood - not found on any map - to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder."--Publisher's description |
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Pagina 8
... tell its story ; Smoky listened , looked at his card , found them the same , and was turning down the card even as the distorting glass threw up the next tale . The reader next to him sighed tragically . The ceiling coughed . The ...
... tell its story ; Smoky listened , looked at his card , found them the same , and was turning down the card even as the distorting glass threw up the next tale . The reader next to him sighed tragically . The ceiling coughed . The ...
Pagina 14
... tell you something ? " " Sure . " His heart beat fast , with no reason to . " I knew you , when we met . " " What do you mean ? " " I mean I recognized you . " She lowered her furry red - gold lashes , then stole a quick look at him ...
... tell you something ? " " Sure . " His heart beat fast , with no reason to . " I knew you , when we met . " " What do you mean ? " " I mean I recognized you . " She lowered her furry red - gold lashes , then stole a quick look at him ...
Pagina 18
... tell him how she had gone to the City in the fall and met this man in George Mouse's house , and how she had known ... Tell them I came , anyway , " she shouted after him , her voice small against the waterfall's . " Tell them I did my ...
... tell him how she had gone to the City in the fall and met this man in George Mouse's house , and how she had known ... Tell them I came , anyway , " she shouted after him , her voice small against the waterfall's . " Tell them I did my ...
Pagina 20
... tell you , " she said . " Jeff ? Can you tell this young man the way to Edgewood ? " She awaited an answer from within he couldn't hear , and then opened the door . " Come in , " she said . " We'll see . " The house was tiny and tidy ...
... tell you , " she said . " Jeff ? Can you tell this young man the way to Edgewood ? " She awaited an answer from within he couldn't hear , and then opened the door . " Come in , " she said . " We'll see . " The house was tiny and tidy ...
Pagina 21
... tell you , " Jeff said , re - rolling the " You going to walk all night ? " Marge asked . " Well , I've got a bedroll . " Marge pursed her lips at the comfortless blankets strapped to the top of his pack . " And I suppose you haven't ...
... tell you , " Jeff said , re - rolling the " You going to walk all night ? " Marge asked . " Well , I've got a bedroll . " Marge pursed her lips at the comfortless blankets strapped to the top of his pack . " And I suppose you haven't ...
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CHAPTER FOUR | 59 |
A Suit of TrumansThe Summer HouseWoods | 67 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 74 |
BROTHER NORTHWINDS SECRET | 97 |
Retreats and OperationsA Swell IdeaSome Notes | 126 |
CHAPTER ONE | 267 |
CHAPTER TWO | 287 |
CHAPTER THREE | 307 |
The Top of a StairDaughter of TimeThe Child | 323 |
THE ART OF MEMORY | 341 |
The Hero AwakenedA Secret SorrowA Year to Place | 361 |
CHAPTER THREE | 387 |
Not a Moment Too SoonNeedle in The Haystack | 407 |
Robin Birds LessonThe End of the WorldBrother | 144 |
Time FliesA Definite HazardUp on the HillCocoa | 159 |
Agreement with NewtonLetters to SantaRoom | 179 |
CHAPTER ONE | 185 |
CHAPTER TWO | 204 |
Old Law FarmThe Bee or the SeaA Wingéd Messen | 223 |
Lilacs and FirefliesThats a SecretBooks and a Bat | 242 |
THE FAIRIES PARLIAMENT | 427 |
WintersFiftyTwoCarrying a TorchSomething | 448 |
What a SurpriseWalking from ThereA Parliament | 455 |
CHAPTER THREE | 473 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 491 |
Storm of DifferenceWatch Your StepA Family | 509 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
anyway asked Aube Auberon began beneath Black Crow Bramble cards child City Cloud cold Daily Alice dark door dream Drinkwater Edgewood eyes face father feeling felt fingers Fred Savage Frederick Barbarossa George Mouse girl glass gone Grandfather Trout grew guess Gun Club hair hand Hawksquill head heard heart JOHN CROWLEY John Drinkwater knew laughed Lilac Lily listen looked Meadow Mouse mother never night Nora Okay Old Law Farm once orrery perhaps queen of coins remember rose Russell Eigenblick secret seemed silence sleep smile Smilodon Smoky Smoky pointed Smoky's someone Sophie Sophie's stairs stared stone stood stork story supposed sure Sylvie Tacey tell there's thing thought told Tony Buck took turned Underhill Violet voice waited walked watched window winter wonder woods
Populaire passages
Pagina 453 - To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.
Pagina 363 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Pagina 99 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Pagina 161 - Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best, Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest, The milkie way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud, The land of spices; something understood.
Pagina 38 - Sibyl — the thirtieth was at the Trojan war and Helen her name — the thirty-eighth was Queen Semiramis — the sixtieth was Eve, the mother of mankind. So much for the 'Old woman that lives under the hill, And if she's not gone she lives there still.
Pagina 143 - A goose, tobacco and cologne — Three-winged and gold-shod prophecies of heaven, The lavish heart shall always have to leaven And spread with bells and voices, and atone The abating shadows of our conscript dust. Anchises...
Pagina 147 - ... minutes, by reiterated drops, Audible tears, from some invisible source That deepens upon fancy — more and more Drawn toward the centre whence those sighs creep forth To awe the lightness of humanity : Or, shutting up thyself within thyself, There let me see thee sink into a mood Of gentler thought, protracted till thine eye Be calm as water when the winds are gone, And no one can Friend ! tell whither. Dearest We two have known such happy hours together That, were power granted to replace...
Pagina 246 - The reason for this is that men pass rapidly from one step to thé next : for instance from milk to white, from white to air, from air to damp ; after which one recollects autumn, supposing that one is trying to recollect that season ". St.
Pagina 143 - GOD bless the master of this house, The mistress bless also, And all the little children That round the table go ; And all your kin and kinsmen, That dwell both far and near ; I wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy New Year.