Pan's garden : a volume of nature stories by Algernon Blackwood
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| Author | Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951 |
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| Illustrator | Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham), 1866-1948 |
| LoC No. | 13011308 |
| Title | Pan's garden : a volume of nature stories |
| Original Publication | London: The MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1912. |
| Contents | The man whom the trees loved -- The south wind -- The sea fit -- The attic -- The heath fire -- The messenger -- The glamour of the snow -- The return -- Sand -- The transfer -- Clairvoyance -- The golden fly -- Special delivery -- The destruction of Smith -- The temptation of the clay. |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor, Tom Trussel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Short stories, English |
| Subject | English fiction -- 20th century |
| Subject | Nature stories, English |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77472 |
| Release Date | Dec 15, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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