The Willows
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First publication
1907
Literary form
Novella
Genres
Fantasy, horror
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Approx. 19,500 words
Notable lines
After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Buda-Pesht, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation....
— First lines
The loneliness of the place had entered our very bones, and silence seemed natural, for after a bit the sound of our voices became a trifle unreal and forced; whispering would have been the fitting mode of communication, I felt, and the human voice, always rather absurd amid the roar of the elements, now carried with it something almost illegitimate.
And when I turned my eyes again from his ghastly face to the river, the current had done its work, and the body had been swept away into midstream and was already beyond our reach and almost out of sight, turning over and over on the waves like an otter.
— Last lines
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