"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear..." Why the petit
The Tale of the Unknown Island
✍ Scribed by Saramago, José
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Harcourt Brace
- Year
- 2000;1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 281 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0156013037
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
An illustrated fable on dreaming the impossible. The hero is a man who asks a king for a boat to search for an unknown island. How can you search for something unknown? Well, it turns out you can, provided you are willing to follow your dreams, and what is more your dreams may come true. By the author of The Stone Raft.
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