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Title: Green Mansions (Oxford World's Classics) by Ian Duncan, William Hudson ISBN: 0-19-283288-3 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I've been haunted by this book since I was twelve.
Comment: I read the Classic Comic version of this book many times when I was a kid. I've only now just read the original and found it's haunting beauty lingered in my mind for the last 2 weeks. The description of Abels mental travails at the end of the book is a particularly memorable and inspired.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book touches my life every day!
Comment: My mother having read this book sometime before I was born in the 50's, was so moved that she named me after Rima. When I was 12 I read it for the first time, and after moving many times the book was lost. I have always wanted to re-read it as an adult feeling that there was quite a bit more I would appreciate now. I am delighted to have located this novel, and will be thrilled not to have to explain to my friends once more where my name originated. I will just loan them the book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Romance versus Superiority
Comment: William Henry Hudson's novel Green Mansions is an exotic romance that takes place in the South American rainforest. The novel is written from the perspective of Abel, a young man who had to leave the city he was living in for political reasons. During his time in the rainforest he meets Rima, who he describes as a bird-like girl, and her grandfather Nuflo. Despite these two, Abel mainly interacts with the Indians with whom he was living before he met Rima and Nuflo. The Indians are mostly referred to as savages.
Green Mansions mainly focuses on the intimation of love and death, and the romanticism of nature versus the disturbing influences of civilization. However, Abel does not see any living creature during his stay in the rainforest as equal to him. He thinks of himself as superior to the Indians, Nuflo, and to Rima as well. He bases his sense of superiority on a better education, a greater intelligence, as well as a better physical condition. This sense of superiority is kept throughout the novel. However, his arrogance is one way to deal with his insecurity about many situations. Abel only seems to feel secure if he sees himself as superior to everybody else. This is the reason why he defines superiority based on the situation. Sometimes superiority is referred to as greater intelligence and in other cases as physical superiority. The way he uses superiority depends on the way it is easier for him to define himself as superior.
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Title: Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson ISBN: 0486259935 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson, Keith Henderson, Ilan Stavans ISBN: 029918224X Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. Hudson ISBN: 0486257401 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0684801221 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 05 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Lost Horizon by James Hilton ISBN: 0671664271 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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