The Midnight Folk

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Wicked Witch: Mrs Pouncer and her colleagues, complete with familiar felines, flying broomsticks, tall pointy hats, wrinkled faces, hooky noses, etc. Kay's toys (known as "the guards") have been taken away from him at the start of the book, apparently because they will remind him of his parents; there is a strong implication that Kay's parents are deceased. Whenever Kay is hanging out with animals, he's apparently about the same size as they are, and when his toys are out and about, they seem to be life-size. Oracular Head: The coven uses a Brazen Head that can see into the past in an attempt to locate the treasure.

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The Midnight Folk – New York Review Books The Midnight Folk – New York Review Books

and wondering what all these strange, beautiful-sounding words meant as I laboured over my ascenders and descenders. There is a little boy for hero, there are witches, a good deal of excellent magic, a hidden treasure, and a profusion of talking animals and toys come to life…It may be added that anyone who has, in infancy, greatly disliked his governess will derive a special gratification from The Midnight Folk. To continue reading, please sign in or take out a subscription to the quarterly magazine for yourself or as a gift for a fellow booklover. A super copy of Masefield's celebrated childhood classic, marking the first appearance of his hero Kay Harker, who would later appear in 'The Box of Delights'.Will Kay and the midnight folk be in time to save the long-lost family treasure from falling into the hands of Abner Brown and a tribe of witches known as the Pouncer Seven? You can unsubscribe from our list at any point by changing your preferences, or contacting us directly. It is about a boy, Kay Harker, who sets out to discover what became of a fortune stolen from his seafaring great grandfather Aston Tirrold Harker (in reality, Aston Tirrold is a village in Oxfordshire). We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there?

The Midnight Folk - John Masefield - Google Books The Midnight Folk - John Masefield - Google Books

While Kay is talking to the first of these, of Captain Harker, ‘A black cat with white throat and paws, which had been ashes for forty years, rubbed up against great grandpapa Harker’s legs, and then, springing on the arm of his chair, watched the long dead sparrows in the plum tree, which had been firewood a quarter of a century ago.Masefield takes this scenario and stuffs it with every imaginable device of children’s literature – talking animals, pirates, hidden pas­sages, invisibility potions, mermaids, King Arthur and more. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. It is difficult for me to describe the ecstatic bliss of my earliest childhood,’ he wrote in a late memoir, So Long to Learn: All that I looked upon was beautiful, and known by me to be beautiful, but also known by me to be, as it were, only the shadow of something much more beautiful, very, very near, and almost to be reached, where there was nothing but beauty itself in ecstasy, undying, inexhaustible . His Herefordshire childhood was idyllic; he delighted in the landscape, its sense of place and history, its folklore and its myths. Character Overlap: Abner Brown previously appeared as a henchman of the villain (also a black magician) in Sard Harker.