Download or read book The Centaur; Algernon Blackwood (illustrated) written by Algernon Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A really good story that's hard to put a finger on or even define. At times I felt the prose was far too long and overly descriptive. I understand why Blackwood did that- he's attempting to describe the indescribable.Personally I am very surprised that this book never became something big. In fact as I was reading it, I could totally picture it as one of those abstract movies Brad Pitt might make. But I feel that although it might make for a beautiful movie, as some of that esoteric imagery might, well, be best illustrated as visual imagery and not only words, I still feel the depth of this story would be lost on the general public. Sad as that may be, I think the majority of the public would see what this book seems to be at the surface level: a somewhat homoerotic fascination of one man for another man (perhaps why this book was never famous back in its day? SHAME!). And although it is that at one level, it is so much deeper than that as well.