6 edition of The box of delights = found in the catalog.
The box of delights =
John Masefield
Published
1965
by Penguin in Harmondsworth
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1935.
| Statement | John Masefield ; Illustrated by Judith Masefield. |
| Series | Puffin books |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 270p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 270 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL16767103M |
Experience one of the first great Christmas adventures! Before Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia came John Masefield’s The Box. Both books only just manage to hold on to any sense of reality and often descend into su Midnight Folk sets events in motion around the summer solstice when the old magic comes closer to the surface and Box of Delights concludes the story at winter solstice, or Christmas as it is more widely known!4/5.
The Box of Delights by Masefield and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at The Box of Delights is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield, first published in Kay Harker, the protagonist of The Midnight Folk, is on his way home from boarding school for the Christmas holidays when a mysterious encounter leads him on a series of adventures.. Better known to many people through the TV adaptation.
In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s. The box of delights: when the wolves were running by John Masefield; 29 editions; First published in ; Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Children's stories, English.
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The Box of Delights () by John Masefield is a miracle and a masterpiece of magical literature. I admit to getting lost in the narrative. I was complete absorbed in Kay Harker’s adventures. The actual box of delights allows the holder to travel quick or small or both – the depiction of magical and enchanted journeys held me by: 6.
The Box of Delights () by John Masefield is a miracle and a masterpiece of magical literature. I admit to getting lost in the narrative. I was completely absorbed in Kay Harker’s adventures.
The actual box of delights allows the holder to travel quick or small or both – the depiction of magical and enchanted journeys held me enthralled.4/5. The Box of Delights () by John Masefield is a miracle and a masterpiece of magical literature. I admit to getting lost in the narrative.
I was complete absorbed in Kay Harker’s adventures. The actual box of delights allows the holder to travel quick or small or both – the depiction of magical and enchanted journeys held me enthralled/5(). The Box Of Delights () The Box Of Delights () About book: "Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters.
Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: “The wolves are running.”/5(4). The Box of Delights is a magical and festive adventure in which one boy must confront the secrets of the past to defeat the evil in his present.
In terms of its strengths, the Box of Delights outweighs really any other book I read in my childhood. However, unlike A Wizard of Earthsea, the Hobbit and The Horse and His Boy, which are all, in their own terms, more or less perfect, The Box of Delights has an unnecessary flaw which makes it, ultimately, a disappointing experience.
In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year.
The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in /5(). Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives/5().
The Box of Delights is a true Christmas classic With its dreamy prose and snowy, magical adventures, John Masefield's book deserves to be as much of a Yuletide favourite as A Christmas Carol. “ The Box of Delights' is based on a 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/5(). Box of Delights is an anthology of sixteen original horror stories, featuring Hugo Award, British Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award winning authors.
Editor John Kenny writes in his original introduction that "I have found myself drawn to the horror genre in recent years, with its emphasis on character, mood and sense of place being the 4/5. The Box of Delights () by John Masefield is a miracle and a masterpiece of magical literature.
I admit to getting lost in the narrative. I was complete absorbed in Kay Harker’s adventures. The actual box of delights allows the holder to travel quick or small or both – the depiction of magical and enchanted journeys held me s: The sequel to The Midnight Folk, The Box of Delights is a thrilling adventure in its own right, peopled by mythical beings from Herne the Hunter with his great antlers to the Lady of the Oak Tree, her sleigh drawn by a team of lions all mingled with delightfully eccentric Edition: First Thus.
The Box of Delights () is a loose companion piece to The Midnight Folk (). They are the only two novels Masefield wrote specifically for children and they have the elastic, eccentric and. At once a thriller, a romp, and a spellbinding fantasy, The Box of Delights is a great English children's book and a perfect Christmas e things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters/5(7).
He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, two novels Captain Margaret and Multitude and Solitude and a.
The Box of Delights is a children’s fantasy novel about a boy, Kay, returning from boarding school who finds himself mixed up in a battle to possess a magical box. It allows the owner to shrink in size, to fly swiftly, to go into the past and to experience the magical wonders contained within the box.
The current owner of the box is an old Punch and Judy man called Cole. John Masefield (—) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from until his death.
He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, two novels Captain Margaret and Multitude and Solitude and a great deal of poetry, including his anthology Saltwater : New York Review Books.
John Masefield’s classic children’s book is considered to be one of the great works of modern children’s fiction. Magical, fantastical and filled with vivid, rich characters – brought to life in this edition by Quentin Blake’s stunning artwork – The Box of Delights and its sequel The Midnight Folk are a must-read for any child.
The Box of Delights () by John Masefield is a miracle and a masterpiece of magical literature. I admit to getting lost in the narrative. I was complete absorbed in Kay Harker’s adventures.
The actual box of delights allows the holder to travel quick or small or both – the depiction of magical and enchanted journeys held me s:. The Box of Delights Is a Book of Delights Published by User, 13 years ago This and John Masefield's other childrens book, "The Midnight Folk" are without a doubt two of the finest most imaginative examples of children's literature I have ever read.5/5(5).At once a thriller, a romp, and a spellbinding fantasy, The Box of Delights is a great English children’s book and a perfect Christmas treat.
About The Box of Delights Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters.
The Box of Delights () by John Masefield is a miracle and a masterpiece of magical literature. I admit to getting lost in the narrative. I was completely absorbed in Kay Harker’s adventures. The actual box of delights allows the holder to travel quick or small or both – the depiction of magical and enchanted journeys held me enthralled.4/5(46).
