By Reef and Palm — Louis Becke

Louis Becke tarafından kaleme alınan By Reef and Palm Platanus Publishing eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor By Reef and Palm Louis Becke Kitap Özeti It is open to any one to say that these tales are barbarous and what Mrs Meynell in a very clever and amusing essay has called decivilised Certainly there is a wide gulf separating life on a Pacific island from the accumulated culture of centuries of civilisation in the midst of which such as Mrs Meynell move and have their being And if there can be nothing good in literature that does not spring from that culture these stories must stand condemned But such a view is surely too narrow Much as I admire that lady s writings I never can think of a world from which everything was eliminated that did not commend itself to the dainty taste of herself and her friends without a feeling of impatience and suffocation It takes a huge variety of men and things to make a good world And ranches and CANONS veldts and prairies tropical forests and coral islands and all that goes to make up the wild life in the face of Nature or among primitive races far and free from the artificial conditions of an elaborate civilisation form an element in the world the loss of which would be bitterly felt by many a man who has never set foot outside his native land Yayınevi Platanus Publishing Yazar Louis Becke Sayfa 117 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 14 00x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Mart 2020 Barkod 9786257923330 Kategori Edebiyat Kitapları Yabancı Dilde Kitaplar Roman