In the canon
The Baron in the Trees
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1957
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 220
A boy climbs into the trees after a childhood quarrel and refuses ever to come down again, living out a whole life of love, war and politics in the branches, and vanishing skyward at the end, having never once touched the ground.
Anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from it.
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