The Singing Creek where the Willows Grow: The Rediscovered Diary of Opal WhiteleyThe author of the popular The Tao of Pooh brings back the forgotten diaries of Opal Whiteley, which were the literary sensation of 1920 but surrounded by scandal soon after. Hoff also tells the tale of Opal herself, a gifted but disturbed little girl who was destroyed when her private fantasies were exposed to public scrutiny. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. |
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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal ... Opal Whiteley No preview available - 1995 |
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal ... Opal Whiteley No preview available - 1995 |
Common terms and phrases
Angel Father Aphrodite birds blue Brave Horatius cathedral Chatterton Jupiter Zeus christening robe Cottage Grove Dear Love diary door eggs Elizabeth Barrett Browning Ellery Sedgwick eventime fairies feels Felix Mendelssohn fir tree fleurs folks Françoise gave girl give glad going-away day grow grunt Horace Ovid Virgil house of Elsie house we live hurry Jenny Strong kind to mice lane Lars Porsena le Grand Condé look looks Lucian Horace Ovid mamma Mathilde Plantagenet Michael Angelo Sanzio mill town morning moss-box mother nice nose old log Opal Whiteley Opal's Oregon Peter Paul Rubens pig-pen pink Porsena of Clusium potatoes prayers quick ranch house ribbon road Sadie McKibben singing creek Solomon Grundy song stop Story of Opal talk tell Theocritus things thinks Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Thucydides told unto wait waits walk wears gray neckties William Shakespeare willows woods write
References to this book
Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing Randall Roorda Limited preview - 1998 |