Authors worth reading:
L. M. Montgomery: her heroines are all elf maids in human
guise though their fairy land be Canada
G . K. Chesterton: certainly a wise old elf with a child’s
heart who can write a wondrous account of cheese
Jane Austen: the wit of the fairies in the guise of a
daughter of England’s lesser gentry
J. R. R. Tolkien: a
student of elf lore, language, and topography, a wizened professor of the realm
Charles Dickens: the heart and humor of the fairies set
amidst the drudgery of urban living
George MacDonald: the founder and true guide to fairyland,
few describe it better
C. S. Lewis: a few words can say more than many books, truly
a wizard of plain english
Victor Hugo: can find hope and virtue amidst chaos, cruelty,
injustice, and indifference
Shakesspeare: witty and either delightful or cruelly tragic
James Herriot: one would think the folk of Yorkshire elves
and their beasts capable of speech
Louisa May Alcott: heart and virtue make her characters rich
though poverty and dread lay all about
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