Green Mansions (Annotated)

First published in 1904, W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions is a romance of the Venezuelan forest, narrated by the fugitive Abel as he encounters Rima, the mysterious "bird-girl" whose voice and being seem inseparable from the living wilderness. Blending adventure, pastoral elegy, and symbolic romance, the novel belongs to the late Victorian/Edwardian tradition of exotic quest fiction while resisting i...