Pan's Garden / Incredible Adventures [Paperback]

PAN S GARDEN Pan s Garden is a thematic collection of stories which, in the words of the author, illustrates that characteristic belief, present in all my work, that there exists a definite relationship between Human Beings and Nature. From the opening novella, The Man Whom the Trees Loved in which Nature welcomes and absorbs the soul of a man to the concluding The Temptations of the Clay in which Nature rejects the spirit of the man who tries to profit from it we are transported into a natural world where the elements hold sway. Mike Ashley, in his introduction, calls Pan s Garden the definitive volume of Blackwood s short stories. . . because it defines the true nature of Blackwood s writing. INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES Incredible Adventures represents what biographer Mike Ashley calls the last outburst of his golden period and is comprised of three novellas and two short stories. Here, nature is a living force, truth is the only religion and the past holds sway over the present. At times almost surreal in their intensity, these tales exert a strange power over the reader, opening our eyes to a larger world around us. From the rugged mountains of Eastern Europe in The Regeneration of Lord Ernie to the vast deserts of Egypt in A Descent Into Egypt, Blackwood takes us to other places--and other worlds.