《The Sleep of Trees 》作者：- Jane Yolen【EPUB】

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Jane Yolen The Sleep of Trees One of the most distinguished of modern fantasists, Jane Yolen has been compared to writers such as Oscar Wilde and Charles Perrault, and has been called “the Hans Christian Andersen of the Twentieth Century.” Primarily known for her work for chil-dren and young adults, Yolen has produced more than a hun-dred books, including novels, collections of short stories, poetry collections, picture books, biographies, and a book of essays on folklore and fairy tales. She has received the Golden Kite Award and the World Fantasy Award, and has been a finalist for the Na-tional Book Award. In recent years, she has also been writing more adult-oriented fantasy, work that has appeared in collec-tions such as Tales of Wonder, Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk, Dragonfield and Other Stories, and Merlin s Booke, and in novels such as Cards of Grief, Sister Light, Sister Dark, and White Jenna. She lives with her family in Massachusetts. Dryads, tree-spirits, are hardly the most fearsome or formi-dable of mythological creatures, usually portrayed in sentimen-tal paintings as beautiful young women in diaphanous gowns-still, as the wry story that follows suggests, if you do happen to encounter one, it might be wise to treat her with a certain mea-sure of respect. . . * * * * “Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.” — Chesterton It had been a long winter. Arrhiza had counted every line and blister on the inside of the bark. Even the terrible binding power of the heartwood rings could not contain her longings. She desperately wanted spring to come so she could dance free, once again, of her