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Carregando... The Joy of the Snow (1974)de Elizabeth Goudge
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A charming autobiography by a wonderful writer, full of that particularly Edwardian combination of practicality and wonder for both the magical and the natural world. Goudge is an unabashedly Christian writer and it is, perhaps because of her gentle-yet-firm faith, a great pleasure to also read of her respect for such things as fairies, white witches and events-out-of-time. She is precisely the sort of person I'd love to spend a great number of evenings with, sitting by the fire, sipping tea, and swapping tales. Enjoy. And then go our and read her fiction. It's a terrible shame much of it is out of print. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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EG has a small but determined following and it is well-deserved. She can seem sentimental to the modern mind (and some of her books do cross the line from insight into mushiness) because her unashamed Christianity is of that unfashionable self-sacrificial kind that can very easily be mistaken for weakness. In fact her best heroines are anything but weak, they identify and defeat their character flaws with courage and at personal cost. They display an understanding of the truth that we are able to change only ourselves.
The insights EG displays in her fiction she learned from her life. She describes her self as spoilt child, who grew into a poorly-educated woman who was always dependent on others for the practical things of life. She lived a quiet, secluded life, caring for her mother after her father's death, content to stay at home. But what marks her out, what brought her to popular attention and bestseller status, is her ability to make even the most outwardly ordinary life significant. She wrote about the inner life, and she makes us understand that what seems insignificant to the world is of great and ultimate significance, because God sees it and understands. ( )