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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A sentimental "tale of two boys"
This is a sentimental novelette about two boys, one of whom has a crush on the other. One of them dies. This book was dedicated to, and horrified, Henry James. It is rather similar to the novel "Tim" by Howard Overing Sturgis. This quaint and charming tale reeks of the age in which it was written (1905). The death at the end happens simply because sentimentalists...
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was expecting but good
It might be that I missed something in the reviews I read earlier but this was -- in affect -- a book length poem! So it took a while to into the swing of reading it but the reward is worth the effort. The whole thing is just a little flowery for us these days but still a beautiful story of love and fantasy -- I'd recommend it.
Published on March 26, 2009 by S. C. Matthews
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A sentimental "tale of two boys",
This review is from: The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys (Valancourt Classics) (Paperback)
This is a sentimental novelette about two boys, one of whom has a crush on the other. One of them dies. This book was dedicated to, and horrified, Henry James. It is rather similar to the novel "Tim" by Howard Overing Sturgis. This quaint and charming tale reeks of the age in which it was written (1905). The death at the end happens simply because sentimentalists expected such deaths. This has little to do with the slightly later tradition of killing off everybody at the end of novels about homosexuality.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was expecting but good,
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This review is from: The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys (Valancourt Classics) (Paperback)
It might be that I missed something in the reviews I read earlier but this was -- in affect -- a book length poem! So it took a while to into the swing of reading it but the reward is worth the effort. The whole thing is just a little flowery for us these days but still a beautiful story of love and fantasy -- I'd recommend it.
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The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys (Valancourt Classics) by Forrest Reid (Paperback - July 16, 2007)
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