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The Devil in a Forest is a short novel by American writer Gene Wolfe about the conflict between Christianity and an earlier Pagan religion in Europe during the Middle Ages. The hero of the story, Mark, is an adolescent, an orphan, and the apprentice to a weaver very near a small holy Christian shrine. The shrine is within the King's ...
1. Jan. 1976 · What a misleading blurb! No battle for good and evil, just deadly forest hijinks and murder mysteries. A more truthful blurb: The murder of a wandering peddler by the highwayman Wat plunges a small forest village into slowly stewing chaos.
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15. Feb. 1996 · The young man's hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat's cold savagery, and his fear of the sorcerous powers of Mother Cloot is tempered by her kindness. He must decide which of these powers to stand by in the coming battle between Good and Evil that not even his isolated village will be able to avoid.
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The Devil in a Forest. Publication (s) First published by Follett, 1976. Summary. A highwayman corrupts the small medieval village where a young man lives. Comments. General comments on place in Wolfe's corpus. Sources of quotes. Meanings of names. References to other works. Etc. Interpretations.
He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record. The young man's hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat's...
The Devil in a Forest. Gene Wolfe. Follett Publishing Company, 1976 - Fantasy fiction - 224 pages. Mark finds himself torn between his hero worship for charming highwayman Wat and his growing...
