Green Mansions

Literature & Fiction

Author: W.H. Hudson

A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson’s novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the ‘green mansions’ of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow… One of the acknowledged maste….Read More

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