This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence but is implicit with the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. This quasi-fairy tale speaks of village life in the high mountains but is also a parable of belief and faith. Rock Crystal is a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal.
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This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence but is implicit with the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. This quasi-fairy tale speaks of village life in the high mountains but is also a parable of belief and faith. Rock Crystal is a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal.
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Add this copy of Rock Crystal, a Christmas Tale, to cart. $14.07, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published by Pantheon Books.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition thus. Rendered into English by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore. Illustrations by Josef Scharl. Lightly toned spine, small soil mark on rear board, near fine in a very good dust jacket with several chips, and a sunned spine with rubbing housed in a very good cardboard slipcase with toning at the edges, and a tiny chip at the foredge. An Austrian novella.
Add this copy of Rock Crystal to cart. $90.09, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Pushkin Press.
