The Enchanted Woods

Name: The Enchanted Woods
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Vernon Lee
ISBN: 9781399121026

Author: Vernon Lee

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Unabridged: 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Published: 02/01/2022

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

A short essay from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee. The majority of Vernon Lee’s work was essays and studies on art and history but this little-known essay’s sense of places lends itself more to poetry than non-fiction. As Lee guides us through an enchanted wood, it gives us an insight into the inspiration behind Lee’s supernatural stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Margaux on October 06, 2024

“Life itself is a journey from an unknown starting point to an unknown goal. We who move along its tracks cannot overlook the roads which cross and recross one another in endless intricacy; and the maps we make for ourselves are the mere scrawlings of fanciful children. All we can do, while thus trav......more

Goodreads review by Elderberrywine on September 30, 2012

I love how the first essay introduces the enchanted woods of England, basically the writer's own backyard, as the most mystical place ever and one from which there would never be any reason to roam. Every following essay, of course, is set in France, Italy, Germany, oh, just about any place than Engl......more