Book description
Sulky and obstinate, Typhon is not the son his well-to-do Athenian
parents think he should be. Not knowing what else to do, they reach
out to their friends Epicurus and Menander, the great Hellenic
philosophers of old. The philosophers' diagnosis: adventure. Gifting
Typhon with the ability to speak to plants, they send him across
ancient Greece to discover what he can about life and love. But while
he's soaking in arboreal wisdom, Typhon embarks on the greatest
adventure of adolescence: love.
â The book has an undeniable charm.â
Â-The Saturday
Review, 1925
Eden Phillpotts was born in India in 1862, but hailed from the
United Kingdom from his early childhood forward. Known as a
prolific young adult and mystery novelist, he penned about 250
works in his lifetime, including The Farmer's Wife, a comic
play which Alfred Hitchcock later directed as a silent film. Later
in his career, he explored his modern philosophy in a wealth of
fantasy and early science-fiction novels.
