The Box of Delights: When the Wolves Were Running
John Masefield, abridged by Patricia Crampton
Language: English
Published by Fontana Lions, London, 1984
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- Title
- The Box of Delights: When the Wolves Were Running
- Author
- John Masefield, abridged by Patricia Crampton
- Publisher
- Fontana Lions, London
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0006724159
- ISBN 13
- 9780006724155
- Illustrator
- Faith Jaques
- Edition
- Reprint
- Dimensions
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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Review
"Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated" -"The Washington Post"
""The Box of Delights'" is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures." -"The Seattle Times"
"Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the real delight derives from Masefield's style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his various characters...Lovely stuff." -"The Washington Post"
"This book is a writer's oft-raided treasure trove...the world's best 'crossover book'...It does time-travel better than "Narnia..".The story floats on brilliant, eccentric dialogue and...never loses its snowy-Christmas, Nutcracker enchantment..." -"The Independent" (UK)
"Masefield the children's writers is unbeatable." -"The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
" [Masefield' s] most popular children's book... Original and remarkable" - "The New York Review of Books"
" Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated" - "The Washington Post"
" "The Box of Delights'" is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures." - "The Seattle Times"
" Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the real delight derives from Masefield's style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his various characters... Lovely stuff." - "The Washington Post"
" This book is a writer's oft-raided treasure trove... the world's best ' crossover book' ... It does time-travel better than "Narnia.".. The story floats on brilliant, eccentric dialogue and... never loses its snowy-Christmas, Nutcracker enchantment... " - "The Independent" (UK)
" Masefield the children's writers is unbeatable." - "The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
"[Masefield's] most popular children's book...Original and remarkable" -"The New York Review of Books"
"Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated" -"The Washington Post"
""The Box of Delights'" is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures." -"The Seattle Times"
"Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the real delight derives from Masefield's style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his various characters...Lovely stuff." -"The Washington Post"
"This book is a writer's oft-raided treasure trove...the world's best 'crossover book'...It does time-travel better than "Narnia,.".The story floats on brilliant, eccentric dialogue and...never loses its snowy-Christmas, Nutcracker enchantment..." -"The Independent" (UK)
"Masefield the children's writers is unbeatable." -"The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
"This classic of English children's literature, sadly overlooked by most on this side of the Atlantic, has just been reissued in a beautiful edition by the New York Review Children's Collection...Although "The Box of Delights" was first published in 1935, Masefield's intoxicating prose has lost none of its pull...in this wonderful tale of bravery and intrigue that deserves to become another staple of the holidays." --"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"First published in 1935," The Box of Delights" by John Masefield is newly available. In the adventure-laden Christmas story, Kay Harker (also the protagonist of Masefield's "The Midnight Folk") returns from boarding school for the holidays and becomes involved in a struggle with a wizard and witch who wish to possess the eponymous box." --"Publishers Weekly"
"This uniquely imaginative tale would be a delight for fans of old-fashioned, English Literature and could be compared to the likes of "A Christmas Carol" and the "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,"" --CLEAR Reviews
"[Masefield's] most popular children's book...Original and remarkable." -"The New York Review of Books"
"Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated" -"The Washington Post"
""The Box of Delights'" is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures." -"The Seattle Times"
"Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the realdelight derives from Masefield's style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his various characters...Lovely stuff." -"The Washington Post"
"This book is a writer's oft-raided treasure trove...the world's best 'crossover book'...It does time-travel better than "Narnia,.".The story floats on brilliant, eccentric dialogue and...never loses its snowy-Christmas, Nutcracker enchantment..." -"The Independent" (UK)
"Masefield the children's writers is unbeatable." -"The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
"The book that always had the magic of a snowy English Christmas.... It's still a lovely book, magical and funny, to be read by anybody of any age." --"The Horn Book"
"This classic of English children's literature, sadly overlooked by most on this side of the Atlantic, has just been reissued in a beautiful edition by the New York Review Children's Collection...Although "The Box of Delights" was first published in 1935, Masefield's intoxicating prose has lost none of its pull...in this wonderful tale of bravery and intrigue that deserves to become another staple of the holidays." --"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"First published in 1935, " The Box of Delights" by John Masefield is newly available. In the adventure-laden Christmas story, Kay Harker (also the protagonist of Masefield's "The Midnight Folk") returns from boarding school for the holidays and becomes involved in a struggle with a wizard and witch who wish to possess the eponymous box." --"Publishers Weekly"
"This uniquely imaginative tale would be a delight for fans of old-fashioned, English Literature and could be compared to the likes of "A Christmas Carol" and the "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe."" --CLEAR Reviews
"[Masefield's] most popular children's book...Original and remarkable." -"The New York Review of Books"
"Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated" -"The Washington Post"
""The Box of Delights'" is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures." -"The Seattle Times"
"Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the real delight derives from Masefield's style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his va
"This witty and wonderful children's novel by the onetime Poet Laureate of the UK is widely beloved on the other side of the pond, but lesser known here. A travesty, that, since it's a magic box in itself: a magical adventure that begins with a boy on his way home for Christmas, stopped by a man who implores him, 'And now, Master Harker, of Seekings, now that the Wolves are Running, as you will have seen, perhaps you would do something to stop their Bite?' Enter wizards and witches, mice, Roman soldiers, the toughest little girl you'll ever meet, and Christmas just might be saved after all." --"Flavorwire"
"The book that always had the magic of a snowy English Christmas.... It's still a lovely book, magical and funny, to be read by anybody of any age." --"The Horn Book"
"This classic of English children's literature, sadly overlooked by most on this side of the Atlantic, has just been reissued in a beautiful edition by the New York Review Children's Collection...Although "The Box of Delights" was first published in 1935, Masefield's intoxicating prose has lost none of its pull...in this wonderful tale of bravery and intrigue that deserves to become another staple of the holidays." --"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"First published in 1935, " The Box of Delights" by John Masefield is newly available. In the adventure-laden Christmas story, Kay Harker (also the protagonist of Masefield's "The Midnight Folk") returns from boarding school for the holidays and becomes involved in a struggle with a wizard and witch who wish to possess the eponymous box." --"Publishers Weekly"
"This uniquely imaginative tale would be a delight for fans of old-fashioned, English Literature and could be compared to the likes of "A Christmas Carol" and the "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe."" --CLEAR Reviews
"[Masefield's] most popular children's book...Original and remarkable." -"The New York Review of Books"
"Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated" -"The Washington Post"
""The Box of Delights'" is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures." -"The Seattle Times"
"Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the real delight derives from Masefield's style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his various characters...Lovely stuff." -"The Washington Post"
"This book is a writer's oft-raided treasure trove...the world's best 'crossover book'...It does time-travel better than "Narnia."..The story floats on brilliant, eccentric dialogue and...never loses its snowy-Christmas, Nutcracker enchantment..." -"The Independent" (UK)
"Masefield the children's writers is unbeatable." -"The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
This witty and wonderful children s novel by the onetime Poet Laureate of the UK is widely beloved on the other side of the pond, but lesser known here. A travesty, that, since it s a magic box in itself: a magical adventure that begins with a boy on his way home for Christmas, stopped by a man who implores him, 'And now, Master Harker, of Seekings, now that the Wolves are Running, as you will have seen, perhaps you would do something to stop their Bite?' Enter wizards and witches, mice, Roman soldiers, the toughest little girl you ll ever meet, and Christmas just might be saved after all. "Flavorwire"
The book that always had the magic of a snowy English Christmas . It s still a lovely book, magical and funny, to be read by anybody of any age. "The Horn Book"
"This classic of English children's literature, sadly overlooked by most on this side of the Atlantic, has just been reissued in a beautiful edition by the New York Review Children's Collection...Although "The Box of Delights" was first published in 1935, Masefield's intoxicating prose has lost none of its pull...in this wonderful tale of bravery and intrigue that deserves to become another staple of the holidays." --"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"First published in 1935, " The Box of Delights" by John Masefield is newly available. In the adventure-laden Christmas story, Kay Harker (also the protagonist of Masefield's "The Midnight Folk") returns from boarding school for the holidays and becomes involved in a struggle with a wizard and witch who wish to possess the eponymous box." --"Publishers Weekly"
"This uniquely imaginative tale would be a delight for fans of old-fashioned, English Literature and could be compared to the likes of "A Christmas Carol" and the "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe."" --CLEAR Reviews
[Masefield s] most popular children s book Original and remarkable. "The New York Review of Books"
Masefield's novel, a plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling, should be more widely appreciated "The Washington Post"
"The Box of Delights'" is based on a 1935 story by famous English poet John Masefield, and it's crammed full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures, adventures, adventures. "The Seattle Times"
Every chapter in this book is marvelous, but the real delight derives from Masefield s style and the idiosyncratic, colorful speech of his various characters Lovely stuff. "The Washington Post"
This book is a writer s oft-raided treasure trove the world s best crossover book It does time-travel better than "Narnia" The story floats on brilliant, eccentric dialogue and never loses its snowy-Christmas, Nutcracker enchantment "The Independent" (UK)
Masefield the children s writers is unbeatable. "The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
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"This witty and wonderful children's novel by the onetime Poet Laureate of the UK is widely beloved on the other side of the pond, but lesser known here. A travesty, that, since it's a magic box in itself: a magical adventure that begins with a boy on his way home for Christmas, stopped by a man who implores him, 'And now, Master Harker, of Seekings, now that the Wolves are Running, as you will have seen, perhaps you would do something to stop their Bite?' Enter wizards and witches, mice, Roman soldiers, the toughest little girl you'll ever meet, and Christmas just might be saved after all." --Flavorwire
"The book that always had the magic of a snowy English Christmas.... It's still a lovely book, magical and funny, to be read by anybody of any age." --The Horn Book
"This classic of English children's literature, sadly overlooked by most on this side of the Atlantic, has just been reissued in a beautiful edition by the New York Review Children's Collection...Although "The Box of Delights" was first published in 1935, Masefield's intoxicating prose has lost none of its pull...in this wonderful tale of bravery and intrigue that deserves to become another staple of the holidays." --The San Francisco Chronicle
"First published in 1935, The Box of Delights by John Masefield is newly available. In the adventure-laden Christmas story, Kay Harker (also the protagonist of Masefield's The Midnight Folk) returns from boarding school for the holidays and becomes involved in a struggle with a wizard and witch who wish to possess the eponymous box." --Publishers ...
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