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Mason Brown·Basil DavenportClifton Fadiman·Gilbert Highet·John P.MarquandBook-of-the-Month Club Selections represent the unanimous choice of this Editorial Board  \nA novel likely to be as widely enjoyed as two otherclassics of nature fiction,Green Mansions and Bambi.The heroine is an enchanting twelve-year-old,thehero a magnificent jungle lion.It is“a story of ad-venture and of love...so strange as to be almostincredible....A masterpiece of narrative.\"  \nReport by GILBERT HIGHET  \nIN AFRICA you can still see the world as it was many thousands of yearsago,before mankind took over and dominated the planet.In Africa thereare still some of the huge primeval grasslands,untouched by plows,unmarkedby roads,unviolated by houses—the green savannahs over which move,infamilies and in herds,noble and beautiful animals.In that calm and happyEden there is scarcely room for man.  \nYet,with his usual greed and ruthlessness,man is invading it,killing itsinhabitants,remaking it to suit himself and no others.Large-scale farmersand land developers have driven off or starved hundreds of thousands ofhelpless beasts;big-game hunters and ivory poachers have slaughtered many  \nthousands more.In order to visit the paradise ofthe past,it is now best to go to a living museum:one of the great game reserves where man thehunter and man the builder are both excluded,sothat the animals,and the grass,and the trees,andthe water,and the clear air and clean sky can existwithout loss or defilement.  \nThe Lion is a drama seen and told by a visitor tosuch a game reserve,a National Park in Kenya.From its first big scene,when the narrator steps tothe edge of a clearing and sees,around a shimmer-ing pool,the magnificent moving panorama ofanimal life,to its last,when the king of lions faces  \nhis devoted enemy,the novel is full of superbly vivid pictures.I know nothingto equal them in the literature of wild nature.Beside the best of them,Hemingway's African scenes appear crude and those of Isak Dinesen graceful  \nbut evanescent.The Lion is a masterpiece of description.  \nIt is also a masterpiece of narrative.Very few mod-ern authors can tell an exciting story which—like manyexperiences in life itself—seems to be at once unpre-dictable and logical.You feel,as you read,that theentire adventure happened just as Joseph Kessel saw itin the days he spent on the Reserve.You share his won-der;you are gripped by his excitement and his awe.  \nLooking back on The Lion,now that(with increas-ing admiration)I have read it for the third time.Ithink that it might easily be told as a myth.Once upona time there was a girl who loved a lion.She foundhim when he was a baby,blind and helpless.She fedhim by hand,kept him warm in her bed,talked to himas he grew stronger,played with him as though shehad been a sister cub or he a human brother.Herfather loved the lion too.They named him the King.Even after he went back into his kingdom,the forestand the plains,he was still dear to them,and they to  \nhim.The girl loved him not less,but more.She used to call to him,and hewould always answer and come to her.They played together.She stroked hishuge head,and lay back confidently,happily,in his enormous arms.And inthe end.  .How do myths end?They end in the inevitable,which none oftheir characters can foresee.They end in destiny.  \nThe Lion is like a myth.Indeed,it takes place in the land of living myths.The time is the present,and the characters are all believable and real;yet theyhave something of the grandeur and remoteness of mythical figures.The girl'sfather,once a mighty hunter,is now warden of the Reserve,and kills nolonger.Strong,straightforward,impetuous,courageous,he is a lion trans-formed into a man.Patricia herself,although a perfectly real English adoles-cent,with her pudding-basin haircut and her broken nails,still know","cbCaimQzKy9beKQh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimQzKy9beKQh","pdf",2061053,28,"English","# July Selection\n## The Lion - novel summary and critical 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