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The Wooden Horse by Walpole, Hugh is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wooden Horse about?

Summary from Barnes & Noble: "The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted as tranquility the belief that they were the people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Trojan came home after twenty years in New Zealand, with the democracy learned by working his hands, he was the "wooden horse" who boldly carried into the Trojan walls a whole army of alien ideals, which made of that egotistic family a group of human beings content to be human. "Interesting are his struggles against stubborn prejudice; dreamlike the pictures of the old Trojan house, rising from the edge of the gray Cornish cliff like an older cliff, yet surrounded by fragrant rose gardens."What most distinguishes The Wooden Horse is its passionate adoration of the sea, the cliffs, the weather-worn old Cornish houses, where bearded men tell of haunted moors and the winds of the deep. Nowhere has Walpole shown a greater grip upon life's realities, a stronger appreciation of the elusiveness of man-made conventionalities and a better artistic sense of the dramatic value of contrasts. In describing the subtle changes brought about in the family circle by the presence of one outside influence

Who reads The Wooden Horse?

Author

Walpole, Hugh

Publisher

Distributed Proofreaders Canada

Published

1909

Language

EN

Category

history

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.08 / 5 (550 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13