|
|
Post by Knygathin on Sept 1, 2022 9:12:25 GMT
I hope someone will make a digital file of the original John Westhouse edition and put on Archive.org or similar place. Or, only the stories "Petronella Pan" and "Couleur de Rose" would be great too!
I am very curious about it, but much too uncertain to pay a small fortune. And I am sorry to say I don't find the Valancourt edition attractive enough to want to own it.
|
|
|
|
Post by Knygathin on Sept 2, 2022 14:49:48 GMT
An honorable gentleman sent me "Petronella Pan" and "Couleur de Rose". I shall read these pages with the pious attentiveness and relish of a medieval scholar.
Thank you again!
|
|
|
|
Post by Knygathin on Sept 24, 2022 13:23:41 GMT
As mentioned earlier in the thread, he reads like EC stories. Entertaining in a simple and chocking way. And he is a humorist. And surely, not lacking insights either. "Petronella Pan" has a very silly and funny ending, but the central idea is so preposterous that it is hardly convincing at all. "Couleur de Rose" was quite good and striking, the perspective turning upside down like a pancake on the very last sentence.
He is worthwhile, kind of, and I will read more eventually, ... but not in a hurry. I don't know what other writers he most aptly compares to. But he is surely not as deeply satisfying as Charles Birkin, not for me at least. Someone mentioned Roald Dahl (whom I am only vaguely familiar with), and that may be right. I understand that Cross wrote mostly for children otherwise.
|
|
