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 17
... winter night when he was a boy , boarding then with a half - brother who was half - heartedly religious , he first saw a ring around the moon . He stared up at it , immense , icy , half as wide as the night sky , and grew certain that ...
... winter night when he was a boy , boarding then with a half - brother who was half - heartedly religious , he first saw a ring around the moon . He stared up at it , immense , icy , half as wide as the night sky , and grew certain that ...
Pagina 18
... winter , " she said shyly , tracing the quartz muscle of the rock she sat on , smiling but not looking at him ( because she spoke of whom she loved ) , " we , well we met again , and made promises - you know- " She saw him flick his ...
... winter , " she said shyly , tracing the quartz muscle of the rock she sat on , smiling but not looking at him ( because she spoke of whom she loved ) , " we , well we met again , and made promises - you know- " She saw him flick his ...
Pagina 20
... winter's fires . Jeff put down his newspaper and lifted his slippered feet from their hassock . " Edgewood ? " he asked around his pipe . " Edgewood . I was given directions , sort of . " " You hitching ? " Jeff's lean mouth opened like ...
... winter's fires . Jeff put down his newspaper and lifted his slippered feet from their hassock . " Edgewood ? " he asked around his pipe . " Edgewood . I was given directions , sort of . " " You hitching ? " Jeff's lean mouth opened like ...
Pagina 29
... winter's fires , lavender sachets in brass - handled linen closets , what else ? Wax , sunlight , collated seasons , the June day outside brought in as the screen groaned and clacked shut behind him . The stairs rose before him and ...
... winter's fires , lavender sachets in brass - handled linen closets , what else ? Wax , sunlight , collated seasons , the June day outside brought in as the screen groaned and clacked shut behind him . The stairs rose before him and ...
Pagina 54
... winter , he wept often ; in the spring he was des- perately impatient , rageful when he found heaps of winter still piled in the corners of April . When Violet spoke of spring she meant a time of flowers and baby animals — a notion . A ...
... winter , he wept often ; in the spring he was des- perately impatient , rageful when he found heaps of winter still piled in the corners of April . When Violet spoke of spring she meant a time of flowers and baby animals — a notion . A ...
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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.