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Product Description
Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Willows. An elegant and influential novella by one of the most best-known writers of fantasy and horror; a story H. P. Lovecraft considered the finest supernatural tale in our literature. A coordinated edition of Blackwood's The Wendigo is available. Copper Penny Press books are in an easy to read and easy to read aloud sixteen-point format.
Product Details
- Published on: 2006-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 60 pages
Customer Reviews
who will read this edition?
This is only the only story in a very slim edition, accompanied with outrageously gargantuan chapter numbers and first-letter-of-sentence characters at the beginning of every chapter. The typesetting is quite ugly, but the story is classic and holds the attention. One can find the story elsewhere: in the Penguin Classics and Dover editions with other fine Algernon oddities. This book is overpriced, as is the The Wendigo, by the same publisher. For its price, you should have more to read, in a better layout.
Different Edition, Different Publisher
The review by Nick Estes is for a different edition from another publisher, not the Copper Penny Press edition, ISBN 978-0615182414, released in February 2008.
Excellent Edition, and for Free!
As a recent purchaser of a Kindle, I naturally wanted some content, but felt somewhat bewhildered by the vast range of pricing--from free to relatively expensive--for what appeared to be identical works. In order to test the "free" works, I decided to download Algernon Blackwood's short novel, "The Willows," fully cognizant of the old adage that one gets what one pays for.
Well, the edition here is superb. No misspellings or misplaced punctuation that I saw; the only flaws were a handful of missing paragraph indentations, and they did not interfere with the flow of the story. I heartily commend those who took the time to transcribe this story for their excellent work.
As for the story itself, it remains a very unnerving read. Like Lovecraft, Blackwood spends most of the time building up a near palpable atmosphere of dread, with only a few fitful sightings to give shape to that dread. "The Willows" remains one of his best tales, and this edition is highly recommended.
