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"It is one of the finest of all love stories: to some it may be the finest.” - Daily Chronicle “Entitles its author, at last, to rank with the best novelists of his generation.” -Quarterly Review. “Those who read it with an understanding heart will keep it long in their memories.” -British Books William Henry Hudson 1919 novel “Green Mansions, a Romance of the Tropical Forest,” is a book of singular beauty. The scene of this romance is laid in a tropical forest near Venezuela and Guiana. The heroine is an original and poetic character who has already been described as an Undine of the woods. It tells of largo open spaces, of rich forests full of vegetable and animal life, of savage races and their thoughts and habits; but, best of all, it tells of the incomparable ilium, a woman halfhuman, half-spirit, but wholly lovely and adorable. Great skill and deep understanding have combined in her creation; she typifies all that is sweet and pure in nature. A woman of the forest, she has learned from bird and beast all there is to know, and the great secrets and joys of the wild natura life are hers. Her meeting with Abel, their love, the tragedy that ensues, and the peace which reconciles and heals—these make up a story of great originality, a story that is both moving and passionately in earnest. Hudson writes not of men who live in cities, real life to him is the study of nature, and his fine disregard of material things—of wealth, position, and power—will strike many a reader with a shock of surprise. To him the things that matter are the beautiful things of the earth and the truths which they embody, and, in a sense, his story is an allegory which is full to the brim of a cold, scathing satire. His humour is dry but infectious, and in describing his hero's relations with the Indians there is many an irresistible touch. Cla-cla, for instance, is particularly well drawn; so vivid is her portraiture that it seems to the reader she is, in part at least, taken straight from life. The book contains many fine passages of true eloquence. About the author: William Henry Hudson (1841 –1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Hudson was born in Quilmes, near Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine née Kemble, United States settlers of English and Irish origin. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He had a special love of Patagonia. Other works by Hudson include: The Purple Land that England Lost: Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America (1885) A Crystal Age (1887) Argentine Ornithology (1888) Fan–The Story of a Young Girl's Life (1892) The Naturalist in la Plata (1892) Idle Days in Patagonia (1893) Birds in a Village (1893) Lost British Birds (1894) British Birds (1895) Osprey; or, Egrets and Aigrettes (1896) Birds in London (1898) Nature in Downland (1900) Birds and Man (1901) El Ombu (1902) Hampshire Days (1903) Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) A Little Boy Lost (1905) Land's End. A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall (1908) Afoot in England (1909) A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (1910) Adventures Among Birds (1913) Tales of the Pampas (1916) Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (1918) The Book of a Naturalist (1919) Birds in Town and Village (1919) Birds of La Plata (1920) Dead Man's Plack and An Old Thorn (1920) A Traveller in Little Things (1921) Tired Traveller (1921) Seagulls In London (1922) Hind in Richmond Park (1922)

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