false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178656179m/817019.jpg 817019 51 A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the `green mansion' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow. One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement. First published in 1904 and a best-seller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man. 802906 1904 Green Mansions (Oxford World's Classics) total:274|5:71|4:95|3:79|2:21|1:8| 274 1022 408 49 4 1 true false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 15:09:07 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 21:32:59 -0700 2009
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Rereading it... Ugh! What I saw in it back then is not what I see in it now. The protagonist is a self centered, pretentious... pedophile! At least that's what I get from it now. Maybe I just wasn't in the...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Apr 28 15:45:58 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 15:46:40 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 11:46:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 11:48:09 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984 Tue Oct 27 06:46:41 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 06:49:02 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Nov 25 22:01:34 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 22:02:45 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 07 23:18:49 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 23:47:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 20:17:39 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 20:18:17 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Aug 31 13:32:03 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 13:32:03 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=817019