Author: Wildsmith, Brian:
Title: Maurice Maeterlinck's Blue Bird.
Description: Oxford University Press, 1976 Oversized Hard Cover, pictorial bds, a little age-discol. at edges otherwise Good+, clipped dust jacket, small closed tear and clear tape to top edge front, beginning to age-yellow, Good, contents nice, tight, with wonderful bright illustrations in colour, v. occas. faint age-mark, pp37, lovely bright pictorial endpapers. "A brother and sister; Tyltyl and Mytyl, are visited one night by a strange old woman who at first sight resembles an acquaintance of theirs. She is a fairy, she tells them, and is searching for the Blue Bird which alone can restore health and happiness to a little girl who is ill." This is the story of how the children agree to help her.

Keywords: blue bird Maurice Maeterlinck play fairy fantasy search quest brother sister Land o fMemory Palace of Night Palace of the Future 019279714X


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