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A Suit of Nettles by James Reaney; Jim Westergard is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Suit of Nettles about?
The title of A Suit of Nettles was inspired by a German fairy tale. Seven suits of nettles are woven by the sister of seven brothers who have been changed into swans. When the time comes for the seven swans to put on their suits of nettles and regain human form, the arm of one suit is not finished. Consequently one brother always has one swan’s wing instead of an arm. The poem, like Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar, is a sequence of pastoral eclogues, one for each month of the year, but here the di
Who reads A Suit of Nettles?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- James Reaney; Jim Westergard
- Publisher
- The Porcupine's Quill
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781122977159
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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