**Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nature writing - a fable about wildness and the desire to escape** **** **Beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and _The Lost Words_ creator Jackie Morris** Little Eepersip doesn't want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so sh
The House Without Windows
β Scribed by Follett, Barbara Newhall;Morris, Jackie
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd; Hamish Hamilton
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 646 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- UK
- ISBN
- 0241986087
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β¦ Synopsis
Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nature writing - a fable about wildness and the desire to escape
Beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and The Lost Words creator Jackie Morris
Little Eepersip doesn't want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild - first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and finally in the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow her at first, bringing her back home to 'safety' and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. But she slips away once more, following her wild heart out of the door and far away...
Barbara Newhall Follett was just thirteen years old when she published The House Without Windows in 1927. The book went on to become a million-copy bestseller. Years later, as an adult herself, Barbara followed in the footsteps of her radical heroine - dissatisfied with the limitations of life as a respectable married woman, she...
β¦ Subjects
Fiction
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