[From the back cover] "The Violet Apple is a love story infused with Christian themes. The story centers around the cultivation of an apple tree from a a seed which, according to legend, belonged to the original tree in the garden of Eden. The tree grows, fives forth two violet apples, and dies. The lovers eat the violet apples, and what happens next will be hauntingly familiar to all fans of A Voyage to Arcturus."
"The Witch is David Lindsay's final novel, and one he considered to be his major work. The manuscript had been missing for over twenty years, and only just rediscovered. It describes the haunting of a man's consciousness by the "music" of a "witch" and culminates in a description of the soul's experiences after death."
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
AN APPLE A DAY,
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This review is from: The Violet Apple and the Witch (Paperback)
I read this book years ago, too, and actually there is an apple in the tale contrary to the previous reader's recollection . . . an ingenious device really, an heirloom handed down from the time of the Crusades turns out to contain a pip from the original apple in the Garden of Eden. The hero, a horticulturist, goes to all kinds of pains to cultivate it, and guess what happens next . . . .The Violet Apple is not an easy read, neither is the other difficult novel in the volume, The Witch, which is even more cumbersome. But if you were moved by Lindsay's classic Voyage to Arcturus, consider this book a kind of pilgrimage--the journey is its own reward, and the sack cloth feels like silk at the end.
1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
another journey of sorts,
This review is from: The Violet Apple and the Witch (Paperback)
It was years ago, but what I do recall is that the story had to do with a house, with a room in which one was transported to another world, as if into another dimention. There was no witch or witches or apples at all and had nothing to do with them. Not as ingrossing or adventerous as "A Voyage to Arcturus", but a good read. A better-read than "The sphynx" though.
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