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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Magical, exotic, poetic fantasy,
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This review is from: The Three Mulla-Mulgars (Collected Works of Walter de la Mare) (Library Binding)
If you like the Hobbit, you'll love this "children's" novel about three royal monkeys (or mulla-mulgars) who journey across a strangely wintery fantasy Africa so that they can live with their "Uncle Assasimmon, Prince of the Valleys of Tishnar". On the way, they encounter flesh-eating "minimuls," "mountain mulgars" who do battle with eagles, the deadly beast Immanala, a beautiful water-midden who tricks one of the mulgars and takes his magic "wonderstone", a lost "Oomgar" from England, and many other adventures. The tone of the writing is wonderfully poetic and evocative, the verbal equivalent of Arthur Rackham's paintings. It's a crime this novel isn't better known.
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The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare (Hardcover - 1919)
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