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William Horwood
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in Oxford, The United Kingdom
May 12, 1944
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What a pleasure to see a truly commercial film which dares to makes its deepest points with allegory. I am thinking of Seraphim Falls (2006). It's currently viewable on BBC iPLayer.
It's a story of how two tough mens' paths tragically cross in the American Civil War resulting in the quest for revenge by one of them. It's also a gritty, realistic Western in which the realism slowly and effectivel...
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Duncton Wood (Duncton Chronicles, #1)
— published 1980 — 9 editions |
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The Willows in Winter
by William Horwood, Patrick Benson — published 1993 — 13 editions |
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Duncton Quest (Duncton Chronicles, #2)
— published 1980 — 7 editions |
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Duncton Found (Duncton Chronicles, #3)
— published 1989 — 2 editions |
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Skallagrigg
— published 1987 — 3 editions |
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Duncton Stone (Book of Silence, #3)
— published 1993 — 8 editions |
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Duncton Tales (Book of Silence, #1)
— published 1991 — 2 editions |
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Duncton Rising (Book of Silence, #2)
— published 1992 — 5 editions |
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Journeys to the Heartland (The Wolves of Time, #1)
— published 1995 — 3 editions |
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Spring (Hyddenworld, #1)
— published 2009 — 2 editions |
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“Perhpas if I call out to Rat he might hear," said the Mole to himself, but without much hope.
Rat! Ratty! O Rat, please hear me!" he called out as loudly as he could, holding up his lantern as he did so, waving it about/ But the wind rushed and roared around him even more, and snatched his weak words away the moment they were they were uttered, and scattered them wildly and uselessly as if they were flakes of snow,
Even worse, the light of the lantern began to gutter, and then, quiet suddenly, an extra strong gust of wind blew it out.
Well then," said the daunted but resolute Mole, putting the spent lantern on the ground, "there's nothing else for it! Frozen rivers are dangerous thinngs, no doubt, but I must try to cross, despite the dangers."
--The Willows in the Winter”
― William Horwood
Rat! Ratty! O Rat, please hear me!" he called out as loudly as he could, holding up his lantern as he did so, waving it about/ But the wind rushed and roared around him even more, and snatched his weak words away the moment they were they were uttered, and scattered them wildly and uselessly as if they were flakes of snow,
Even worse, the light of the lantern began to gutter, and then, quiet suddenly, an extra strong gust of wind blew it out.
Well then," said the daunted but resolute Mole, putting the spent lantern on the ground, "there's nothing else for it! Frozen rivers are dangerous thinngs, no doubt, but I must try to cross, despite the dangers."
--The Willows in the Winter”
― William Horwood
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