Tarka the Otter (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Williamson
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: Early decades of this century
- Setting: The Two Rivers, Devon, England
- Principal Characters: Tarka, Whitetip, Tarquol, Greymuzzle, Deadlock, Nog| Old, Bubu, Stickersee, Fang-Over-Lip
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature, Pastoral
- Subjects: France or French people, Nature, Paris, 1920’s, England or English people, Rivers or waterways, Birds, Animals, Winter
- Locales: England
Since Western man took to city living in large numbers and began only to holiday in his original locale, the countryside, readers have been forced to rely on a few men in every generation momentarily to recapture what they have given up for good. These devoted naturalists pass on their accumulated knowledge in books that exhibit two common and marked features: first, writing close to nature seems to clarify literary style so that animals are the subjects of some of the best English prose; and second, although conservationists at heart, these writers report fearlessly the natural...
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