The Magic Forest: A Modern Fairy Story (Paperback or Softback)

White, Stewart Edward

ISBN 10: 144371738X / ISBN 13: 9781443717380

Verlag: Das Press 8/26/2008, 2008

The Magic Forest: A Modern Fairy Story. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9781443717380

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This volume contains Stewart Edward White's 1903 children's story, "The Magic Forest: A Modern Fairy Story". It tells the tale of a boy who sleepwalks off a train and into a forest in Canada. With no memory of his unconscious ramblings, he believes that he's been transported into a fairy tale, and embarks on a fantastic adventure with a Native American tribe. Ideal bedtime reading material, "The Magic Forest: A Modern Fairy Story" would make for a great addition to the family bookshelf, and is not to be missed by fans of White's work. Stewart Edward White (1873-1946) was an American novelist and spiritualist. Other notable works by this author include: "The Long Rifle" (1930), "Folded Hills" (1932), and "Ranchero" (1933). Many vintage texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Stewart Edward White was an American author, dramatist, and spiritualist who was born March 12, 1873, and died September 18, 1946. Known wall painter Gilbert White was his brother. His mother was Mary E. Danielell and his father was a lumberjack named Thomas Stewart White. White was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated from Grand Rapids High School and the University of Michigan with a B.A. in 1895 and an M.A. in 1903. In the years between 1900 and 1922, he wrote both fiction and non-fiction about travel and adventure, with a focus on natural history and life outside. He and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White wrote many books starting in 1922. They said they got the ideas for the books from talking to ghosts. Besides that, they wrote about their trips in California. It was September 18, 1946, when White died in Hillsborough, California. He was 73 years old. People liked White's books at a time when America was losing its wild places.

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Titel: The Magic Forest: A Modern Fairy Story (...
Verlag: Das Press 8/26/2008
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Paperback or Softback
Zustand: New
Art des Buches: Book