PANS GARDEN / INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES

PAN&rsquo,S GARDEN  , Pan&rsquo,s Garden is a thematic collection of stories which, in the words of the author, &ldquo,illustrates that characteristic belief, present in all my work, that there exists a definite relationship between Human Beings and Nature.&rdquo, From the opening novella, &ldquo,The Man Whom the Trees Loved&rdquo,&mdash,in which Nature welcomes and absorbs the soul of a man&mdash,to the concluding &ldquo,The Temptations of the Clay&rdquo,&mdash,in which Nature rejects the spirit of the man who tries to profit from it&mdash,we are transported into a natural world where the elements hold sway. Mike Ashley, in his introduction, calls Pan&rsquo,s Garden &ldquo,the definitive volume of Blackwood&rsquo,s short stories. . . because it defines the true nature of Blackwood&rsquo,s writing.&rdquo,  , INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES  , Incredible Adventures represents what biographer Mike Ashley calls ",the last outburst of his golden period", and is comprised of three novellas and two short stories. , Here, nature is a living force, truth is the only religion and the past holds sway over the present. , At times almost surreal in their intensity, these tales exert a strange power over the reader, opening our eyes to a larger world around us. , From the rugged mountains of Eastern Europe in ",The Regeneration of Lord Ernie", to the vast deserts of Egypt in ",A Descent Into Egypt,", Blackwood takes us to other places--and other worlds._,