Crowley, John Little, Big

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.LITTLE, BIGJohn CrowleyFantasy Masterworks Volume 5eGodACKNOWLEDGMENTSLines from Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson; published 1954.By permission of Oxford University Press.Lines from "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen" from The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane by Hart Crane, edited by Brom Weber; copyright 1933, (c) 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation, also published by Oxford University Press.By permission of W.W.Norton, Inc.and Laurence Pollinger, Ltd.(Note: Every effort has been made to locate the copyright owners of material reproduced in this book.Omissions brought to our attention will be corrected in subsequent editions.)LITTLE, BIGA Bantam Book / September 1981FIRST EDITIONAll rights reserved.Copyright (c) 1981 by John Crowley.Cover art copyright (c) 1981 by Bantam Books, Inc.This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission.For information address: Bantam Books, Inc.ISBN 0-553-01266-5Published simultaneously in the United States and CanadaBantam Books are published by Bantam Books, Inc.Its trademark, consisting of the words "Bantam Books" and the portrayal of a bantam, is Registered in Li.S.Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries, Marca Registrada.Bantam Books, Inc., 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10103.For Lyndawho first knew itwith the author's love.ContentsLITTLE, BIGor,The Fairies' ParliamentBook One: EDGEWOODCHAPTER ONESomewhere to Elsewhere—A Long Drink of Water—Anonymity—Name & Number—A City Mouse—AtFirst Sight—The Young Santa Claus—A Sea Island—Correspondence—Make-Believe—Life is Short, or Long—Trumps Turned at Edgewood—Junipers.CHAPTER TWOA Gothic Bathroom—From Side to Side—Sophie'sDream—Led Astray—An Imaginary Bedroom—In theWalled Garden—Houses & Histories—Doctor Drinkwa-ter's Advice—The Architecture of Country Houses—JustThen.CHAPTER THREEStrange Insides—For It Was He—Strange and ShadedLanes—Call Them Doors—No End to Possibility—ATurn Around The House—Tell Me the Tale—All Ques-tions Answered—Gone, She Said.CHAPTER FOURA Suit of Truman's—The Summer House—Woods andLakes—Touching Noses—Happy Isles—A ShelteredLife—As Quietly As She Had Come—Suppose One Werea Fish.CHAPTER FIVELucky Children—Some Final Order—Can You Find theFaces—These Few Windows—To See What He CouldSee—But There It Is—In the Woods—By the Way—Good Advice—What About It.Book Two: BROTHER NORTH-WIND'S SECRETCHAPTER ONERetreats and Operations—A Swell Idea—Some NotesAbout Them—What You Most Want—Something Hor-rific—Anthology of Love—Darker Before It Lightened—The Last Day of August—Strange Way to Live—NoCatching Up.CHAPTER TWORobin Bird's Lesson—The End of the World—BrotherNorth-wind's Secret—The Only Game Going—The OneGood Thing About Winter—The Old Age of the World—Unflinching Predators—Responsibilities—Harvest-Home—Seized by the Tale.CHAPTER THREETime Flies—A Definite Hazard—Up on the Hill—Cocoaand a Bun—The Orphan Nymphs—The Least Trumps—Only Fair.CHAPTER FOURAgreement with Newton—Letters to Santa—Room forOne More—A Gift They Had to Give—Old WorldBird—Lucy, then Lilac—Little, Big—Solstice Night—InAll Directions.Book Three: OLD LAW FARMCHAPTER ONEKeeping People Out—News from Home—What GeorgeMouse Heard—George Mouse Goes on Overhearing—AFriend of the Doctor's—A Shepherd in the Bronx—Lookat the Time—The Club Meets—Pictured Heavens.CHAPTER TWOOld Law Farm—The Bee or the Sea—A Wingéd Messen-ger—A Folding Bedroom—Sylvie and Destiny—Gate ofHorn.CHAPTER THREELilacs and Fireflies—That's a Secret—Books and a Bat-tle—The Old Geography—Hills and Dales—A GetawayLook—Two Beautiful Sisters.CHAPTER FOURThe Art of Memory—A Geography—Wakings-up—NoGoing Back Out—Slow Fall of Time—Princess—Brown-ie's House—A Banquet.Book Four: THE WILD WOODCHAPTER ONEA Time and a Tour—Rainy-day Wonder—That's theLot—A Secret Agent—The Worm Turned—HiddenOnes Revealed—Glory—Not Yet [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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