The Green Child (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Greene, Graham; Read, Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140030298 ISBN 13: 9780140030297

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1969

Synopsis

First published in 1935, Herbert Read's only novel is a strange, powerful and original work: a sustained piece of political and philosophical fantasy. It tells the story of Dr Olivero, president of a small South American country, who fakes his own assassination and returns in disguise to the English village of his youth. Arriving late in the evening, he notices that the village stream appears to be running uphill. Intrigued, he follows the stream and comes across a lonely mill where he rescues the Green Child, a speechless creature with semi-transparent flesh, from her sadistic husband. She leads Olivero to the millstream's source and plunges him into her strange, subterranean world.

About this title

About the Author

Hebert Read was born in 1893, the son of a Yorkshire farmer, and educated at Leeds University until his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914. He built his reputation as an outstanding critic of the arts, for which he was knighted, and as an anarchist poet. The Green Child is his only work of fiction. He died in 1968.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140030298
• ISBN 13: 9780140030297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160