MASEFIELD, John.

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The Midnight Folk. First illustrated edition. This classic children's novel was originally published in 1927, and this sumptuous illustrated edition was published four years later. When the novel was reissued in 1957 (with numerous subsequent reprints), Hilder's illustrations within the text were used, but the set of colour plates are unique to the present volume.The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights form the "Kay Harker novels" which "are such magical books and are so far above the average books for children that a reader may wonder why no adult cult has developed about them" (Sternlicht, p. 121). "In the Kay Harker books children's literature entered a modern age of fantasy and ingenious invention" (Errington, p. 19).Many authors, including Angela Carter, C. S. Lewis, Alan Garner, and Neil Gaiman have noted the influence of Masefield's children's books on their writing.

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