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Mauler
118 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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January 27, 2015
Excellent novel! A very cool thriller with an intriguing, intelligent and delightful story.
September 14, 2015
Great novel about the tasmanian tiger/wolf. The coolest thing of this adventure is the fact thylacine is the unique character real brave, good and ethic of the story while all human characters are not real good in essence. The savage boy helped the beast try to be like tasmanian tiger but is not so pure like him. This fact made this book great and unique.
Who really love animals and savage life will read it with pleasure. A characteristic I liked about this novel is the time described: the early decade of 19th century, rare novels described this period in Europe through the eyes of citizen from rural zone. I loved read about this excentric predator lost in England´s countryside killing to escape from human cruelty _ during the beginning of industrial revolution was happing in urban zone _ in the moors of Cumbria. Other rich part of the book is the dialect talked by men from the north of England with south of Scotland. This kind of detail enriched the book even more.
The tasmanian tiger hunted, arrested in a another world without its own group and roots turned it so alone and lost reflectedsituation of the rural men opressed and lost in middle of the changes brought by modernity. The unique diference is the fact it just killed to survive.
In many ways this novel reminds me Charles Dickson and the darkness of Mary Shelley mixed with Jack London´s reflection how society could make men be worst than a beast. As Rousseau reflected in past sometimes only nature could heal men´s sick heart.
Mauler is a novel is so realistic: man continue corrupt, coward, brutal and sick... the time passes... the animal is extinct... and men are lost and bad today.
April 13, 2015
I was reading again " THe Call of the wild" when my teacher of literature almost ordered me to read Mauler. He send me this novel as Christmas gift. I read the story about tasmanian tiger with the same pleasure I read Jack London´s stories.
I am always reading novels about savage life. And Mauler is one of my favorite stories about this subject.
I am always reading novels about savage life. And Mauler is one of my favorite stories about this subject.
August 21, 2015
A friend from London gave me this novel. We had returned from a delightful trip from Lake District and she bought it in a traditional english bookstore to celebrate our travel. I started to read this different plot during my train travel to Paris. And I loved to know more about this unusual animal from Australia. I fell in love for Daniel and his love for his hero: thylacine. Since then thylacine is one of my favorite savage animals of all. And I loved to know about him so deeply...less than 3 moths later I read "Mauler" I read other 4 novels about tasmanian tiger. But, until now, any of them wasn´t so great like Williamson´s story.
I gave the book to my nephews and they immediately fell in love with the book.
I gave the book to my nephews and they immediately fell in love with the book.
April 18, 2015
Este livro é adorável! Como português, que sou, fiquei deveras encantando com esta singela e rica narrativa iniciada nas terras limítrofes da Escócia com a Inglaterra, terminando nas terras australianas. Sensacional!!! O autor criou um enredo interessante usando recursos tão simples. Histórias de gente do interior, quando são bem contadas, se tornam clássicas. O animal, também, é um excelente herói. O livro é, para mim, realmente encantador quanto o cavalo de guerra de Michael Morpurgo e o lobo selvagem de Call of the wild de Jack London e o cavalo negro de Walter Farley.
February 7, 2015
Great Novel!!!
April 22, 2015
Stupendo. É sicuramente il migliore libro scritto sulla tigre della Tasmania.
May 11, 2015
El libro es excelente. Yo no sabía la historia del lobo marsupial y en su extinción. En Peru nunca hemos oído hablar de este animal australiano. Me quedé asombrado por el chico Daniel le libera de la explotación de blanco británico. El libro es muy raro. Gran historia para niños y niñas que aman la naturaleza.
February 7, 2015
Amazing story!
July 6, 2015
One of the best novels I read in my life. Fabulous.
April 25, 2015
I think "Mauler" is a treasure for a man like me: dad of 3 boys with age between 9-12 dealing with the cancer of my beloved wife. During a weekend my young brother came from England to stay in the hospital with her while I returned home to recover to deal with her illness and to be a little with my children, the best moments I had was with the boys telling this story to me.
For the first time, after 2 terrible months I had a nice moment. We were camping for some hours. I was surprised through the way my younger son compared his life that moment with Daniel´s hard times walking kms alone with his fox going to whitehaven´s port dreaming with a better life inside Great Michael to travel the world. My other children understand better our suffering thinking about thylacines loneliness being hunting, lost in a world it never knew before.
Watching them acting and playing like Daniel, Captain Potter and Tom Grib, including, pretending they were boxing to survive in hard times, as slaves like thylacine. They were releasing the animal to escape and playing they were hunting him to bring it back to the ship and figthing they could brought him safe to Australia again... was a magic male moment we had together.
Every time I remember this passage of our lives or remind the book, I talk about this cool story to people I know. Mauler is a great novel and will be present in our heart for a long time; maybe forever.
So... if you are a dad of boys like me, having a difficult time or just wanting to have a nice moment with your boys, maybe you can be very pleased reading it with them.
For the first time, after 2 terrible months I had a nice moment. We were camping for some hours. I was surprised through the way my younger son compared his life that moment with Daniel´s hard times walking kms alone with his fox going to whitehaven´s port dreaming with a better life inside Great Michael to travel the world. My other children understand better our suffering thinking about thylacines loneliness being hunting, lost in a world it never knew before.
Watching them acting and playing like Daniel, Captain Potter and Tom Grib, including, pretending they were boxing to survive in hard times, as slaves like thylacine. They were releasing the animal to escape and playing they were hunting him to bring it back to the ship and figthing they could brought him safe to Australia again... was a magic male moment we had together.
Every time I remember this passage of our lives or remind the book, I talk about this cool story to people I know. Mauler is a great novel and will be present in our heart for a long time; maybe forever.
So... if you are a dad of boys like me, having a difficult time or just wanting to have a nice moment with your boys, maybe you can be very pleased reading it with them.
June 28, 2015
Wonderful story: A young orhan trying to save thylacine´s from human´s exploitation made "Mauler" to me "the book".
It is a perfect contemporary novel. Because tells us about a young hero from 19th century acting with courage like an actual echo-friendly boy of our time. Daniel is lost, alone, and devastated, trying to survive by himself. Search other life far from the place he was so unhappy in early days.
When he meets thylacine being explored by Captain Potter as fighting dog. Since he saw the scene of thylacine in combat against the mastiff dogs it turns his hero. So, Daniel understand his despair is the same despair he lives. And have courage to free him from the adults claws inside the Potter´s ship. Going against his new friend, mentor and protector. Because he can´t dynied the suffering thylacine lives is the same his own suffering. He left that rare animal free to be itself in middle of the moors of Cumbria. To give him a chance to survive naturaly and try to escape of all the badness of adults against the children and animals of past.
It is a novel for boys born men but keeps secretly in soul the genuine kindness and love for life and nature: as the most beautiful soul of the best animals we know. Despite all the evil in the world where we live. The end the novel is also great. When we discover the truth about men´s world with Daniel.
Superb. It is one of my favorite novels. It´s classical to me. Again a fantastic british novelist brought to the world the best literature to young souls. like the novels of past.
It is a perfect contemporary novel. Because tells us about a young hero from 19th century acting with courage like an actual echo-friendly boy of our time. Daniel is lost, alone, and devastated, trying to survive by himself. Search other life far from the place he was so unhappy in early days.
When he meets thylacine being explored by Captain Potter as fighting dog. Since he saw the scene of thylacine in combat against the mastiff dogs it turns his hero. So, Daniel understand his despair is the same despair he lives. And have courage to free him from the adults claws inside the Potter´s ship. Going against his new friend, mentor and protector. Because he can´t dynied the suffering thylacine lives is the same his own suffering. He left that rare animal free to be itself in middle of the moors of Cumbria. To give him a chance to survive naturaly and try to escape of all the badness of adults against the children and animals of past.
It is a novel for boys born men but keeps secretly in soul the genuine kindness and love for life and nature: as the most beautiful soul of the best animals we know. Despite all the evil in the world where we live. The end the novel is also great. When we discover the truth about men´s world with Daniel.
Superb. It is one of my favorite novels. It´s classical to me. Again a fantastic british novelist brought to the world the best literature to young souls. like the novels of past.
July 6, 2015
Terrific!!! A gift to thylacine´s memory!
August 25, 2015
Novel is much more than a tale about thylacine. It´s story is about the horrible human condition men from rural zone of England was living in 19th century in the early days of Industrial Revolution.
All the characters were lost, fighting for survive, being corrupt in that dark, sad and hard time. Mauler is the best novel about an inocent orphan, lost and alone in a terrible and brutal world of adults.
He is a hero since the start. He survives the corruptiof adults, and the indiference of them about his condition as child. Nobody protects him against the world. He only can count with himself and with a small fox.
When, finally, he meet Captain Potter, tue unique adult have mercy of him. Soon, he understand, his protector is so corrupt, bad an coward than all people he found in his life. Normal people, pressured by the dificulties from that time. People be corrupt to survive in a world without decent job, money, good rights, good directions for adults of children and animals.
So, the novel is fantastic because starts describing a boy alone traveling through the port of Whitehaven searching a way, any way, to escape of England. And build a new life in other part of the world.
But when he does the travel, he will understand soon the world is much more small than he tought. He discovers men destroying the world with his own ignorance, cruelty, arrogance, cowardness and indiference:
Daniel FELL BOY belongs my list of the best children of literature written in English Language: he is like Pip of Great Expectations. And superior than Oliver Twist. As Oliver he keeps his good soul intact, but he does it much more close than normal human.
He grows sad with men´s cruelty. Never believes man. Only believes nature is pure in this world. The unique thing he could do to survive is help animals, devastated by man like he was all his life.
Mauler was one of the best directions my professor of Literature gave me last year. I didn´t read the novel. I ate it. And it made me think about the hard times english people from rural land lived in 19th century. As tracher of History, I thought the novel wonderful to young people understand better the early times of Industrial Revolution in England. I told to my students of High School read it.
All the characters were lost, fighting for survive, being corrupt in that dark, sad and hard time. Mauler is the best novel about an inocent orphan, lost and alone in a terrible and brutal world of adults.
He is a hero since the start. He survives the corruptiof adults, and the indiference of them about his condition as child. Nobody protects him against the world. He only can count with himself and with a small fox.
When, finally, he meet Captain Potter, tue unique adult have mercy of him. Soon, he understand, his protector is so corrupt, bad an coward than all people he found in his life. Normal people, pressured by the dificulties from that time. People be corrupt to survive in a world without decent job, money, good rights, good directions for adults of children and animals.
So, the novel is fantastic because starts describing a boy alone traveling through the port of Whitehaven searching a way, any way, to escape of England. And build a new life in other part of the world.
But when he does the travel, he will understand soon the world is much more small than he tought. He discovers men destroying the world with his own ignorance, cruelty, arrogance, cowardness and indiference:
Daniel FELL BOY belongs my list of the best children of literature written in English Language: he is like Pip of Great Expectations. And superior than Oliver Twist. As Oliver he keeps his good soul intact, but he does it much more close than normal human.
He grows sad with men´s cruelty. Never believes man. Only believes nature is pure in this world. The unique thing he could do to survive is help animals, devastated by man like he was all his life.
Mauler was one of the best directions my professor of Literature gave me last year. I didn´t read the novel. I ate it. And it made me think about the hard times english people from rural land lived in 19th century. As tracher of History, I thought the novel wonderful to young people understand better the early times of Industrial Revolution in England. I told to my students of High School read it.
April 23, 2015
Amazing novel. I read it when I was living in Mumbai, India. It was fabulous to me that time, because I was alone working very hard without friends around me and missing home. Read "Mauler" to me was like escape again to live a great adventure in the Whitehaven again. The funny thing about it was the fact I read "Mauler" for the first time in 2005 at school. I liked but I didn´t realized how wonderful it was. In India land it turned even better. I am living in Australia now, reading other novels about the same subject. But as other readers here said, Mauler has a simple but strong plot only the best classic novels have.
April 24, 2015
Is always amazing when I discover a new great novelist writing about savage life. Building a wonderful protagonist like tasmanian wolf, alone, running to survive man´s ignorance and cruelty in middle of the moors in the darkness, in Lake District. I am also in love for the boy, Daniel Fell Boy. To me, he is also a great character as Pip from Great Expectations or David Balfour from Kidnapped. But the thing I liked most he is not the hero of this story. And he is far to be perfect.
May 10, 2015
Sensasional!
May 26, 2015
Bella storia di avventura gotica.
April 27, 2015
The book starts telling the story of an orphan called Daniel trying to survive alone with the company of a fox cub during his walk until Whitehaven, England, in 1810.
Soon, he discovers that the darkness and dangers of the woods in the region are less brutal than living with the rude men of that time.
His luck improves when he meets Captain Potter the owner of a ship loaded with wild animals and men that will be sold in England. Potter sympathizes with the boy. And goes on to protect him giving opportunity to work inside the ship to take care ofthe beasts.
When the boy begins to deal with animals, discovers Tasmanian tiger and hate see him arrested. He sets him free. Alone, hungry and in a world it not belongs, thylacine starts to kill livestock to survive scaring the locals.
Then bigins a hunt for thylacine... the boy ends up with the captain and his girlfriend in the Australian continent.Tthere he finds further that the crulety of white men is even worse. They kill everything is alive: other men (aboriginal people), the rarest animals in the continent and themselves inside.
The book is wonderful because it tells a beautiful story and makes us think about the importance of life above all things.
And the boy who started the story protecting a fox cub, worried with thylacine´s end, spends his life becoming naturally an important protector of animals. And the boy who begins the story next to a little fox become a great protector of animal in Australia.
The book is well written, with the grace of nice words, with short sentences in rhythm of a nice trailer. I just disliked the cover. The cover doesn´t have the same quality of the book. I think many people will not read this excellent story because the cover doesn´t help sell the book. It is too much old fashioned.
Soon, he discovers that the darkness and dangers of the woods in the region are less brutal than living with the rude men of that time.
His luck improves when he meets Captain Potter the owner of a ship loaded with wild animals and men that will be sold in England. Potter sympathizes with the boy. And goes on to protect him giving opportunity to work inside the ship to take care ofthe beasts.
When the boy begins to deal with animals, discovers Tasmanian tiger and hate see him arrested. He sets him free. Alone, hungry and in a world it not belongs, thylacine starts to kill livestock to survive scaring the locals.
Then bigins a hunt for thylacine... the boy ends up with the captain and his girlfriend in the Australian continent.Tthere he finds further that the crulety of white men is even worse. They kill everything is alive: other men (aboriginal people), the rarest animals in the continent and themselves inside.
The book is wonderful because it tells a beautiful story and makes us think about the importance of life above all things.
And the boy who started the story protecting a fox cub, worried with thylacine´s end, spends his life becoming naturally an important protector of animals. And the boy who begins the story next to a little fox become a great protector of animal in Australia.
The book is well written, with the grace of nice words, with short sentences in rhythm of a nice trailer. I just disliked the cover. The cover doesn´t have the same quality of the book. I think many people will not read this excellent story because the cover doesn´t help sell the book. It is too much old fashioned.
July 9, 2015
Livro maravilhoso. Junto com "Caninos Brancos" de Jack London é mesmo o livro mais bonito sobre relação do homem com o animal.
O romance é devastador. Assim como as histórias de London sobre o homem e a natureza, Mauler me fez rever a problemática humana, sua maldade, ignorância e exploração desenfreada sobre a natureza e o próprio homem, como poucos livros me fizeram refletir sobre o assunto.
Como outro leitor que deixou um comentário. Talvez, além desses dois romances magníficos. Somente "O Velho e o Mar" tenha causado um impacto assim na minha alma. Quando penso na relação homem/natureza com reflexo de nós mesmos.
O livro é sensacional. Simples, duro, direto, impactante como a própria vida.
Acompanhar a extinção do animal pelo livro, as péssimas condições de vida da população do século XIX massacrada para a exploração de si mesma e da natureza, sem pena. É o retrato da vida daquele tempo e do mundo atual, que continua tão cruel, difícil, ignorante e complicado agora mesmo; em várias partes do mundo.
É o tipo de romance que deve ser ensinado nas escolas. Os jovens e os velhos precisam conhecer este romance. E venerá-lo como ele merece. Porque é realmente uma literatura essencial, do tipo que muda a mente dos leitores para sempre.
Em um país como o Brasil com o desmatamento absurdo de nossas matas. E a pesca predatória sem fim, destruindo espécie de animais com o boto da Amazônia, quase extinto. A leitura de um romance como "Caninos Brancos e Mauler" são essenciais para alertar a juventude sobre a extinção de nossos animais e matas e o respeito pela natureza.
O romance é devastador. Assim como as histórias de London sobre o homem e a natureza, Mauler me fez rever a problemática humana, sua maldade, ignorância e exploração desenfreada sobre a natureza e o próprio homem, como poucos livros me fizeram refletir sobre o assunto.
Como outro leitor que deixou um comentário. Talvez, além desses dois romances magníficos. Somente "O Velho e o Mar" tenha causado um impacto assim na minha alma. Quando penso na relação homem/natureza com reflexo de nós mesmos.
O livro é sensacional. Simples, duro, direto, impactante como a própria vida.
Acompanhar a extinção do animal pelo livro, as péssimas condições de vida da população do século XIX massacrada para a exploração de si mesma e da natureza, sem pena. É o retrato da vida daquele tempo e do mundo atual, que continua tão cruel, difícil, ignorante e complicado agora mesmo; em várias partes do mundo.
É o tipo de romance que deve ser ensinado nas escolas. Os jovens e os velhos precisam conhecer este romance. E venerá-lo como ele merece. Porque é realmente uma literatura essencial, do tipo que muda a mente dos leitores para sempre.
Em um país como o Brasil com o desmatamento absurdo de nossas matas. E a pesca predatória sem fim, destruindo espécie de animais com o boto da Amazônia, quase extinto. A leitura de um romance como "Caninos Brancos e Mauler" são essenciais para alertar a juventude sobre a extinção de nossos animais e matas e o respeito pela natureza.
April 23, 2015
Very nice the reviews about Mauler, folks!
It is one of my beloved gothic novels since I read the book in 2005. I am always reading it again and again. And I discover other interesting point of view.
I love Maggie and Captain Potter as I love Daniel, the fox and thylacine.
I thought the plot wonderful because is gothic written with modern ideas.
Characters are so direct and human. Detail made them very rich and alive because is really closed with people mind´s from interior in past. When I read the last time, I tried to imagine Captain Potter´s life dealing with all sort of rude men inside his Great Michael. Returning to north coast of England full of savage animals crazy to scape. I can´t believed he just liked to use those animals to get money. I believed despite his necessity to get money through his beasts he loves thylacine like Daniel did. He respects the strange and unique animal. The boxing fights were nice to me as the scene of tasmanian wolf eating Lady Dagoberto´s mastiffs.
I am a huge fan.
It is one of my beloved gothic novels since I read the book in 2005. I am always reading it again and again. And I discover other interesting point of view.
I love Maggie and Captain Potter as I love Daniel, the fox and thylacine.
I thought the plot wonderful because is gothic written with modern ideas.
Characters are so direct and human. Detail made them very rich and alive because is really closed with people mind´s from interior in past. When I read the last time, I tried to imagine Captain Potter´s life dealing with all sort of rude men inside his Great Michael. Returning to north coast of England full of savage animals crazy to scape. I can´t believed he just liked to use those animals to get money. I believed despite his necessity to get money through his beasts he loves thylacine like Daniel did. He respects the strange and unique animal. The boxing fights were nice to me as the scene of tasmanian wolf eating Lady Dagoberto´s mastiffs.
I am a huge fan.
April 23, 2015
Encantei-me pelo romance que me foi indicado por um grande amigo meu. O livro me deixou intrigado para descobrir como o menino Fell Boy e sua raposinha iriam sobreviver aos adultos cruéis e indiferentes do interior da Inglaterra na primeira década de 1800. O menino Daniel perdido em meio a toda aquela brutalidade mostrou-se ainda mais vítima que o animal do romance. Para mim, o animal refletiu brilhantemente todo o desespero do menino Fell Boy e sua raposa. Seria ele o reflexo de ambos? Bem era isso o que eu pensava até ler as avaliações aqui escritas. Devo fazer nova leitura do livro para descobrir ainda mais suas riquezas. Só os melhores romances trazem essa deliciosa sensação de garimpo por meio de releituras constantes. E este livro vale muitas releituras.
June 29, 2015
Excellent and unexpected. Brilliant plot. Very simple, dark and authentic. The story is a thriller with a cool strike for nature´s lovers. It is a book about people who do not fit the official world. Those who enjoy stories about such people will love. The boy is the first stroller dark of English literature. His connection with the Tasmanian tiger is visceral, natural, because they are one being. The book's message is violent. World massacres and ignores the boy and the tiger. They return this feeling for the world, of course, effortlessly. Just continuing to be themselves.
Unforgettable story!
Unforgettable story!
July 20, 2015
The best classic novel about extinction I read in my life.
The novel is about the extinction of children´s innocence in the hard times of 19th century and about the extinction of thylacine at the same time. Novel describes the dark world built by men in past. The thing i like most it represents the reality of most real people of that time: people disqualified, ignored, excluded and massacred by a terrible system that included only a tiny part of society. And turned most of society outlaws seeking to survive. The book reflects the reality that time and much of the world today.
The novel is simple and masterful.
The novel is about the extinction of children´s innocence in the hard times of 19th century and about the extinction of thylacine at the same time. Novel describes the dark world built by men in past. The thing i like most it represents the reality of most real people of that time: people disqualified, ignored, excluded and massacred by a terrible system that included only a tiny part of society. And turned most of society outlaws seeking to survive. The book reflects the reality that time and much of the world today.
The novel is simple and masterful.
April 26, 2015
Excellent story with a powerful plot and wonderful characters.
May 14, 2015
Saludo a mi hermano extinto CU´CHULAIN!!!
May 13, 2015
O livro é cinco estrelas. Um clássico da literatura juvenil.
Un libro de cinco estrellas. Un clásico de la literatura juvenil.
A five star book. A classic of young literature.
Un libro de cinco estrellas. Un clásico de la literatura juvenil.
A five star book. A classic of young literature.
July 8, 2015
Quería escribir un comentario corto y banal sobre el libro. Pero me sorprendió con la calidad de los comentarios publicados.
La novela es increíble. Su historia es genial y conmovedor. El lector es tocado por la soledad y la exclusión del niño desde la infancia. El mundo es duro y sombrío y ni siquiera perdonar a los niños, que sufren tanto o más que los adultos. Los adultos son tan masacrados qué no pueden ser bueno con nadie, son malos con los pequeños.
Daniel comienza el libro como un excursionista valiente e inocente. En busca de una nueva vida, lejos de Inglaterra abrumadora. Desde que estaba solo en el mundo después de que sus padres fueron asesinados por la mentalidad ignorante, cobarde, enferma de su tiempo. Como en "El Principito", su mejor amigo es un pequeño zorro. Pero tu amigo es un animal real.
Me pareció maravilloso, el narrador desccrever el chico inglés sin crear el animal o el chico como filófoso. Después de todo, un niño tan inocente del interior, desde ese momento, a principios del siglo XVIII, no puede ser un.
Un niño sin casa, sin familia, sin nada , qué pasa frío, el hambre, el miedo de ser atacado y asesinado en cualquier momento, no podía estar haciendo preguntas demasiado filosóficas sobre la existencia humana. Su mundo es tan duro, su soledad es tal, su vida es un desastre tan grande, el niño simplemente quere huir.
Su objectivo es escapar de un mundo terrible. Él no quiere formar parte de ese mundo. Por el contrario, el chico renuncia a la esperanza de vivir allí. Él quiere alejarse. Se desvanecen como tantos niños explotados en las minas de carbón en el período, ya que muchos niños esclavizados en los puestos de trabajo de baja categoría en la isla britanica, tanto en las zonas rurales cuánto y en las zonas urbanas.
Su sentido de la supervivencia para sí mismo, su coraje para recoger solo otra manera en un mundo tan difícil y espantosa me conmovieron profundamente al principio de la novela.
El resto, sólo la lectura para comprender la belleza y el impacto emocional que nos causan e libro. La historia es muy real. Mientras que hoy en el mundo hay miles de personas que huyen como Daniel. Refleja las miles de personas que buscan una vida mejor en todo el mundo es eterno. El libro es un clásico para mí, así.
Sin comentar sobre la grandeza de la narrativa que mezcla el sufrimiento y la naturaleza del chico con el propio animal exótico. Ellos se complementan entre sí y se pierden en el mundo juntos. El destino de un siempre es vinculado con el otro. Se trata de uno de muchas maneras. Ambos son explotados, ignorados pelos adultos en las necesidades básicas de existir y sobrevivir.
Los dos son inocentes, jóvenes, con un corazón puro. Sólo quiero a existir y vivir en paz. Pero el mundo no darles la bienvenida. No respetarlos. No es el amor o protegerlos. Los dos son destruidos rápidamente por la maldad humana del tiempo. El niño muere en el interior, sin embargo, sigue llamando para ayudar a los animales hasta el final de su vida. El animal es terriblemente golpeado por los cazadores sin piedad hasta extinguirse para siempre en el mundo.
Estoy de acuerdo con los lectores apasionados por Mauler. La rica historia del libro y sus personajes memorables, nos presenta una historia inolvidable. El Libro es en la lista de los más grandes clásicos como Moby Dick, Oliver Twist, Colmillo Blanco y El viejo y el mar.
La novela es increíble. Su historia es genial y conmovedor. El lector es tocado por la soledad y la exclusión del niño desde la infancia. El mundo es duro y sombrío y ni siquiera perdonar a los niños, que sufren tanto o más que los adultos. Los adultos son tan masacrados qué no pueden ser bueno con nadie, son malos con los pequeños.
Daniel comienza el libro como un excursionista valiente e inocente. En busca de una nueva vida, lejos de Inglaterra abrumadora. Desde que estaba solo en el mundo después de que sus padres fueron asesinados por la mentalidad ignorante, cobarde, enferma de su tiempo. Como en "El Principito", su mejor amigo es un pequeño zorro. Pero tu amigo es un animal real.
Me pareció maravilloso, el narrador desccrever el chico inglés sin crear el animal o el chico como filófoso. Después de todo, un niño tan inocente del interior, desde ese momento, a principios del siglo XVIII, no puede ser un.
Un niño sin casa, sin familia, sin nada , qué pasa frío, el hambre, el miedo de ser atacado y asesinado en cualquier momento, no podía estar haciendo preguntas demasiado filosóficas sobre la existencia humana. Su mundo es tan duro, su soledad es tal, su vida es un desastre tan grande, el niño simplemente quere huir.
Su objectivo es escapar de un mundo terrible. Él no quiere formar parte de ese mundo. Por el contrario, el chico renuncia a la esperanza de vivir allí. Él quiere alejarse. Se desvanecen como tantos niños explotados en las minas de carbón en el período, ya que muchos niños esclavizados en los puestos de trabajo de baja categoría en la isla britanica, tanto en las zonas rurales cuánto y en las zonas urbanas.
Su sentido de la supervivencia para sí mismo, su coraje para recoger solo otra manera en un mundo tan difícil y espantosa me conmovieron profundamente al principio de la novela.
El resto, sólo la lectura para comprender la belleza y el impacto emocional que nos causan e libro. La historia es muy real. Mientras que hoy en el mundo hay miles de personas que huyen como Daniel. Refleja las miles de personas que buscan una vida mejor en todo el mundo es eterno. El libro es un clásico para mí, así.
Sin comentar sobre la grandeza de la narrativa que mezcla el sufrimiento y la naturaleza del chico con el propio animal exótico. Ellos se complementan entre sí y se pierden en el mundo juntos. El destino de un siempre es vinculado con el otro. Se trata de uno de muchas maneras. Ambos son explotados, ignorados pelos adultos en las necesidades básicas de existir y sobrevivir.
Los dos son inocentes, jóvenes, con un corazón puro. Sólo quiero a existir y vivir en paz. Pero el mundo no darles la bienvenida. No respetarlos. No es el amor o protegerlos. Los dos son destruidos rápidamente por la maldad humana del tiempo. El niño muere en el interior, sin embargo, sigue llamando para ayudar a los animales hasta el final de su vida. El animal es terriblemente golpeado por los cazadores sin piedad hasta extinguirse para siempre en el mundo.
Estoy de acuerdo con los lectores apasionados por Mauler. La rica historia del libro y sus personajes memorables, nos presenta una historia inolvidable. El Libro es en la lista de los más grandes clásicos como Moby Dick, Oliver Twist, Colmillo Blanco y El viejo y el mar.
May 6, 2015
I was living in Cardiff, Wales, when my son came home from school with a new novel in hand. He had to choose a modern novel to tell a historical fact happened in Britain to make a school work. Then he went to the library and researched a topic that interested him. He chose "Mauler" to study. To our surprise the book showed us a simple story, remarkable, extraordinary. We read the book four times to do a great study. He loved the romance and presented an excellent literary analysis at school. We were very proud of his presentation because the book taught him to follow many clues about the English local history, an extinct rare animal he never knew existed before and the suffering of Australian tribal people crashed by white men. I was blown away seeing a teenager discover the pleasure of knowing the beauty of an entire new world through good literature.
The grace of the whole story about MAULER was the fact that he needed to read English literature to be interested in literature from our land Cape Verde. And the best literature from Angola, South Africa, Brazil, Australia.
The grace of the whole story about MAULER was the fact that he needed to read English literature to be interested in literature from our land Cape Verde. And the best literature from Angola, South Africa, Brazil, Australia.
July 13, 2015
Well, I think Mauler is simply the best novel I read in my life about extinction of an animal. It too much modern to me. Because introduced me a savage animal I never heard in my life: exotic tasmanian tiger also called Thylacine.
The thing I loved most was see Daniel being like thylacine: the resistence of the human beings really loves nature. They are a powerful and touching symbol of resistence to me. A reason like that don´t need other reasons to complete my thought about this unique and special novel forever.
It is the kind of novel will live in my soul forever.
The thing I loved most was see Daniel being like thylacine: the resistence of the human beings really loves nature. They are a powerful and touching symbol of resistence to me. A reason like that don´t need other reasons to complete my thought about this unique and special novel forever.
It is the kind of novel will live in my soul forever.
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