In the Beginning

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In the Beginning
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Fantasy & Fairy Tales

In the Beginning

Norman Douglas
Edition year 1953
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Richard Sharp
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 216
Dimensions 22.7 × 14 cm

Edition details

In the Beginning by Norman Douglas. Eleven full-page drawings and 42 small head-pieces by Richard Sharp. Introduction by Constantine FitzGibbon. Bound in red cloth decorated in brown and black. White dust-jacket printed in green and black. 22.7x14cm. 216pp.

About the book

In the Beginning is Norman Douglas's satirical fantasy about a primeval world and the uneasy arrival of civilisation. At its centre is Linus, whose drive to impose order threatens the freedom of an older, more instinctive existence. Myth, irreverent humour and philosophical argument mingle in a story that turns familiar ideas of human progress upside down. Douglas imagines what may be lost when rules, authority and supposedly civilised behaviour displace the unruly life that came before them.

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