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Lädt ... Letters from a lost uncle (Original 1948; 1948. Auflage)von Mervyn Laurence Peake
Werk-InformationenLetters from a Lost Uncle von Mervyn Peake (1948)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The artwork is gorgeous! The story is not as good as I remember from childhood, I couldn’t help just feeling bad for Jackson. ( ) I wish I'd read this book when I was a child, as I think I would have been as entranced by it then as I was by The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia. Not that it's like them in terms of the story, plot or characters, but in its magical evocation of a new, strange world of possibilities it certainly stands with those books in my mind. I did have the fortune of coming to it in time to read to my children when they were little. It's entirely possible that I enjoyed it more than they did - time will tell. Each page is presented as a facsimile of the eponymous Uncle's letters to his nephew, complete with "genuine" typographical errors, crossings-out, drops of blood and spilled gravy (that clumsy Jackson!), and every page illuminated with Peake's fabulous, fantastical, phantasmagorical illustrations. The story is funny, thrilling, absurd, mysterious and poignant. It's a great book for parents to read along with children from 6 upwards, and is easily enjoyable by anybody of any age who is prepared to give free-reign to a childlike love of adventure and nonsense. Oh blubber! The Picador edition from the 70s doesn't reproduce the illustrations with as high a quality as I would like, but despite this the wit and charm of this book are maintained. Anyone with a slightly askew sense of humor should appreciate this book, an illustrated series of letters from an Arctic explorer wandering in a vast, beautiful wasteland populated with bizarre and mythical creatures. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Lost in the frozen Polar wastes, an explorer huddles in his shelter, typing with freezing fingers, the story of his lonely, extraordinary exploits, preparing to send the story to a nephew he has never seen. With his only companion the tortoise-like mutant Jackson, Uncle has gone in search of his destiny: the awesome and mysterious White Lion. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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