The Willows

by Algernon Blackwood

2003 106 pages eng ★ 4.1 (8 ratings)

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On t…