Welleran Poltarnees
Autore di The Night Before Christmas: A Classic Illustrated Edition (Edens / Darling)
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Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Harold Darling publishes under his real name for more scholarly publications and under Welleran Poltarnees when the book is a compilation of images meant as gift books
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Darling, Harold
- Altri nomi
- Poltarnees, Welleran (pen name)
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di residenza
- Puget Sound, Washington, USA
- Relazioni
- Darling, Sandra (spouse)
- Organizzazioni
- Laughing Elephant
- Breve biografia
- This pen name is based on two of Lord Dunsany's most famous stories: The Sword of Welleran and Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Harold Darling publishes under his real name for more scholarly publications and under Welleran Poltarnees when the book is a compilation of images meant as gift books
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A House Blessing di Welleran Poltarnees
This book blesses the physical house and the protection it offers, wishing for its inhabitants ""a full portion of life's beauty."" It then grows more specific, hoping for kindness, companionship, peace, orderliness and the happiness that overflows into celebration. Poltarnees, drawing upon his library of antique images, has added pictures which best give each thought its most vivid reality. This book makes an excellent gift for any house.
This book is interesting for only those people into book covers. It has scant, but informative, narratives of the decades between 1850 and 1950 describing the influences on book cover design. It has a lot of photos of book covers, primarily from the authors personal library. While they are interesting, I'm not sure they are the best examples of what he was trying to convey.
This is illustration gone totally wrong. There is a reason these books are lost and forgotten - they should never have seen the light of day. As Poltarnees says in the introduction:
"One reason that so many bizarre things occur in old children's books is that editorial discrimination was minimal during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There was an endless demand for new children's books and magazines and publishers were, for the most part easygoing. Many strange and original things got by which later would have been rejected as too eccentric."
They are fascinating though. And this book at least gives the full accreditation information for each page, so that one can follow up with further research.
The author Tom Robbins is quoted on the back cover: "Thanks to Weird & Wonderful, I now know what one book I would take with me to a desert island."
Truly weird. I'm not sure about the wonderful part. Dancing automobile parts, mother and child playing up in the telephone wires, food of all sorts doing things that food shouldn't do...… (altro)
"One reason that so many bizarre things occur in old children's books is that editorial discrimination was minimal during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There was an endless demand for new children's books and magazines and publishers were, for the most part easygoing. Many strange and original things got by which later would have been rejected as too eccentric."
They are fascinating though. And this book at least gives the full accreditation information for each page, so that one can follow up with further research.
The author Tom Robbins is quoted on the back cover: "Thanks to Weird & Wonderful, I now know what one book I would take with me to a desert island."
Truly weird. I'm not sure about the wonderful part. Dancing automobile parts, mother and child playing up in the telephone wires, food of all sorts doing things that food shouldn't do...… (altro)
French painter, Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939), impressionist depictions of homes and gardens. Very welcoming.
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