Introduction by John Galsworthy
Few books among the world's treasure of fiction have found such universal favor and such ardent devotees as Green Mansions. The reason is not far to seek, for it is a tale that holds every variety of reader captive by its yearning love and beauty. John Galsworthy, in his introduction, says: "Green Mansions immortalizes as passionate a love of all beautiful things as ever was in the heart of man. . . . The book is unique, a simple romantic narrative transmuted by sheer glow of beauty into a prose poem."