A Little Princess.
| Publisher | Horn Book, Inc. |
| Publication | The Horn Book Magazine |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0018-5078 |
| Issues per Year | 6 |
| Volume | v73 |
| Issue | n1 |
| Published | 1997-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Kristi Beavin |
| Reviewee | n/a | Francis Hodgson Burnett |
| Reviewee | n/a | Virginia Leishman |
The reality of life in the Middle Ages has been ably portrayed in print of late, and that trend is reflected in three recent audio productions. The first, A Parcel of Patterns, by Jill Paton Walsh, might not initially seem particularly well suited to audio format. If the remote time period (1664) and the setting (a tiny Derbyshire village of "four hundred and some souls") were not enough to make the average listener dubious, the flowery, unfamiliar language (a snarl of dependent clauses and anti-quated words) and the complex religious, philosophical, and ethical themes would seem to...
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