Wildwood (novel)
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Wildwood is a 2011 children's fantasy novel by Colin Meloy, illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis. The 541-page novel, inspired by classic fantasy novels and folk tales, is the story of two seventh-gra
Wildwood by Colin Meloy cover
The St. Johns Bridge. In the universe of Wildwood, this is the Ghost Bridge, existing only when a rune magic spell is cast and not apparent in everyday life. Without the St. Johns Bridge, the impassable Wilderness is all the more isolated.
Carson Ellis and Colin Meloy at a book signing in Portland.
Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements
Wildwood (novel)
…captured and taken to Alexandra, the Dowager Governess (the leader of the coyotes), while Prue rides a mail truck to South Wood. There, Prue finds a Kafkaesque bureaucracy and dysfunctional government. Police state tactics and paranoia over foreign threats are used to keep the regime in power. Prue eventually…
Kafka in 1923
Kafka at about ten with his sisters Valli (left) and Elli (center)
Kinský Palace where Kafka attended gymnasium and his father owned a shop
Former home of the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute