{"product_id":"the-willows-algernon-blackwood-9781546896012","title":"The Willows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFull text.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment-river, sun, wind-and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which \"moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. \u003ci\u003eThe Willows\u003c\/i\u003e is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Algernon Blackwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1546896015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781546896012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21d","brand":"Algernon Blackwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190811980031,"sku":"9781546896012","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e2270cf9-af1b-4a0d-8278-b3368ad43bf2.jpg?v=1690872497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-willows-algernon-blackwood-9781546896012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}