{"product_id":"pan-s-garden-volume-nature-stories-k6r8o7pe","title":"Pan's Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe text is a group of short stories, combining the supernatural and a deep appreciation of the rights of the natural world, by the remarkable Algernon Blackwood, who reacted against a strict evangelical upbringing in favour of eastern mysticism, including for a while at least Theosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the introduction to a 2021 edition of \u003cem\u003ePan’s Garden,\u003c\/em\u003e Blackwood’s biographer, Mike Ashley, describes this as “the definitive volume of Blackwood’s short stories: not because it necessarily contains all of his best work in the genre, although it certainly includes several stories that I consider to be his greatest, but because it defines the true nature of Blackwood’s writing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike so much of Robertson’s illustrations, which features colour and heavy line, and that has a conventional prettiness, these works rely very heavily on a more sinuous line and stipple, and they are imbued with the mysterious quality of the Symbolists, with maybe a little Blakeian influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tiny amount of wear to the tips of the binding, but essentially a fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48726664413341,"sku":"236064","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/pan-s-garden-volume-nature-stories-k6r8o7pe","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}