The Young Visiters
Автор:
Daisy AshfordДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
15
Description
Daisy Ashford was just nine years old when she penned (or rather, penciled) The Young Visiters in her notebook. As an adult, she found the manuscript along with other childhood writings and showed them to her literary friends for a laugh. They were so delighted that they passed them around their circle. The unexpected result was a publishing deal, with J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, writing the preface. So clever was the book that some assumed Barrie himself had written the entire thing as an elaborate hoax.
The story’s “hero” is Alfred Salteena, a polite but bumbling man who hopes to...
