03097cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000360012624500170016226400510017930000470023033600260027733700260030333800360032950000310036550502920039650801900068852014880087853400720236665300270243865300360246565300280250170000550252985600770258485600430266199900190270477472UtSlPG20260610134808.0mcr n260607r20251912utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a13011308  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aBlackwood, Algernon,d1869-195110aPan's garden 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-12-150 aThe man whom the trees loved -- The south wind -- The sea fit -- The attic -- The heath fire -- The messenger -- The glamour of the snow -- The return -- Sand -- The transfer -- Clairvoyance -- The golden fly -- Special delivery -- The destruction of Smith -- The temptation of the clay.  aCharlene Taylor, Tom Trussel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Pan's garden" by Algernon Blackwood is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The tales center on nature’s mysterious, often supernatural presence and its effect on human lives. The opening story follows retired forester David Bittacy, his devout wife Sophia, and a tree-obsessed painter, Sanderson, as the living force of the woods presses upon their Hampshire home.

The opening of the collection presents Sanderson’s uncanny gift for capturing a tree’s “personality,” which resonates with David’s lifelong intimacy with forests and alarms Sophia’s pious caution. Long twilight talks about plant consciousness and a vast, collective forest “being” unsettle the household; a strange wave-like motion across the lawn and the wind “roaring further out” suggest the woods are aware—and held at bay only by their cedar. David later sleepwalks, murmuring that the forest has “sent for” him. After Sanderson leaves, storms break limbs from the cedar, the family builds a barrier along the garden’s edge, and David’s identification with the trees intensifies: he abandons their annual trip abroad, spends his days and nights in the Forest, and grows exultant while Sophia’s dread and protective vigilance deepen. The section closes with her failed attempts to medicalize the change and his invitation to visit a solitary beech at night, as the pressure of the woods steadily mounts. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: The MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1912  aShort stories, English  aEnglish fiction -- 20th century  aNature stories, English1 aRobertson, W. Grahamq(Walford Graham),d1866-19484 uhttps://archive.org/details/pansgardenvolume00blacuoft/page/n11/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77472  c118192d118192