
The Wonder Clock
de Howard Pyle
Première publication en 1888 · 318 pages · environ 5 heures de lecture
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À propos de ce livre
Vingt-quatre merveilleux récits, un pour chaque heure du jour (de l'horloge), chacun précédé d'un frontispice (gravure sur bois ?) de l'auteur, qui a également recueilli et illustré les histoires du livre (peut-être en a-t-il aussi écrit certaines). Les frontispices horaires décrivent aussi ce qui se passait dans la Maison à l'heure en question. Les images et le texte de Pyle étaient d'un style antiquaire, quasi médiéval. Mes parents les lisaient à voix haute à leurs cinq enfants au fil des années (des années 1930 aux années 1950), généralement lors des chaudes après-midi d'été. Nous les ADORIONS.
Citations
“There was a king travelling through the country, and he and those with him were so far away from home that darkness caught them by the heels, and they had to stop at a stone mill for the night, because there was no other place handy.”
Chapter IEn anglais ““Oh! it is nothing but another baby that the good storks have brought into the house to-day,” said the miller.”
Chapter IEn anglais “Now this is true that I tell you: when a great red fox and a grey goose marry, and hard times come, one must make it soft for the other—mostly it is the grey goose who does that.”
Chapter IVEn anglais ““Alas!” said the princess, “I gazed upon that which I should not have gazed upon, and looked into that which I should not have looked into, and one hair touched the water and all was turned to gold.””
Chapter XVEn anglais “As for the poor brother, he just turned his hand to being a doctor; and there has never been one like him since that day, for not only could he cure all sickness with his apple, but he could cure all sorrow as well.”
Chapter XVIEn anglais
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