Oh, please let us come back soon, please.'This is the fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who, with her little brother James, is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. I will write down everything about it because we shall be so much older when we come back that I will never remember it if I do not. Then Father said quietly, "Meg, they must go!"'Now I am going to write a Diary because we are going to America because of the War.
After that there was a terrible silence and I knew that Father and Mother were looking at each other in the darkness and I felt myself getting small and tight inside. Then suddenly there were five loud explosions. First published in 1941, this childrens classic, by the author of Mary Poppins, has been unavailable for many years. You could hear it drumming and drumming like a big bee in a flower, buroom, buroom, buroom, round and round in the air above the house. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from an English plane and we all woke up. Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. Interspersed are memories of her Australian childhood, of the friendships she formed as a young woman in Ireland with AE and Yeats and of her stay on an American Indian reservation where she was driven about by a surly cowboy.'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all.
Ranging from Hindu creation stories through Celtic legend and the ‘Dreamtime’ of the Australian Aborigines to Central European tales of wicked fairies and miller’s daughters, the author sets out her faith in the poetic truth of these fables. The essays are often reflections on the themes of myth and folklore: The Heroic Quest, The Black Sheep, The Foolish Young Son, drawing on a lifelong immersion in world mythology. Travers en Ebook au format ePub sur Vivlio et retrouvez le sur votre liseuse. What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and StoryĪ collection of essays, stories and reminiscences, many of which were first published in the US magazine ‘Parabola’. Oh, please let us come back soon, please.'This is the fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who, with her little brother James, is sent on the long voyage across the sea.
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