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Chargement... British Dragons (1980)par Jacqueline Simpson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Most great books start with a great theme. A so-so theme produces -- well, you can probably guess. The idea of studying British dragons is fascinating, but the raw materials few. Saint George, England's patron saint, supposedly fought a dragon -- but it wasn't in England and he probably didn't exist anyway. Beowulf fought a dragon, but not in England. True English dragons are as often as not large serpents rather than actual fire-breathing reptiles. It's just not the stuff of high adventure. Given that constraint, Simpson does a good job of documenting worm sign and faint traces of dragon folklore. The scholarship is good. But the book is thin because the evidence is thin. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Most say there are no dragons - but this has never stopped poets, artists, story-tellers and musicians from exploiting the fascination these mythical beasts exert on the human imagination. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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One dragon says, "It's hot in here."
The other says, "Shut your mouth." ( )