The Hedgehog
A story to delight the most discerning child, The Hedgehog will also charm and impress adult readers. H.D. enthusiasts in particular will find much to think about in this neglected small classic. With its belated reappearance--only three hundred copies were originally printed in England some fifty years ago--comes the joy of a book true to the real shape and feel of things in childhood. The tale concerns a fatherless Anglo-American child, Madge, living with her mother in Switzerland, safe from the approach of WWII but not from growing up. From her first concerns--desires to walk barefoot, to climb the sheerest goat paths up mountainsides, and to learn (without letting on to her ignorance) about mysterious herissons (hedgehogs)--Madge moves to the edge of more adult woes. The great pleasure of The Hedgehog stems from H.D.'s quicksilver creation of a child's world.
FictionComing of AgeJuvenile FictionPeople & PlacesEuropeLiterary Criticism
RELEASED1988
PUBLISHERNew Directions Publishing
LENGTH77
LANGUAGEEN
Hilda "H.D." Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name of H.D. - Wikipedia
The Hedgehog
A story to delight the most discerning child, The Hedgehog will also charm and impress adult readers. H.D. enthusiasts in particular will find much to think about in this neglected small classic. With its belated reappearance--only three hundred copies were originally printed in England some fifty years ago--comes the joy of a book true to the real shape and feel of things in childhood. The tale concerns a fatherless Anglo-American child, Madge, living with her mother in Switzerland, safe from the approach of WWII but not from growing up. From her first concerns--desires to walk barefoot, to climb the sheerest goat paths up mountainsides, and to learn (without letting on to her ignorance) about mysterious herissons (hedgehogs)--Madge moves to the edge of more adult woes. The great pleasure of The Hedgehog stems from H.D.'s quicksilver creation of a child's world.
FictionComing of AgeJuvenile FictionPeople & PlacesEuropeLiterary Criticism
RELEASED1988
PUBLISHERNew Directions Publishing
LENGTH77
LANGUAGEEN
Hilda "H.D." Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name of H.D. - Wikipedia
