Jacks Wagers (A Jack O' Lantern Tale for Halloween & Samhain)

by Wirton Arvel, Elizabeth Wright (Editor), Brunella Pernigotti (Editor), Rado Javor (Illustrator)

Overview

The true origin of Halloween rewritten with positive values.

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According to an ancient Celtic legend it is said that on the night of Samhain (The Celtic New Year's Eve), a night that is outside the cycle of time because it belongs neither to the Old Year that has just ended nor the New Year that has not yet begun, it may be possible to discern, in the mists that separate the world of the living from that of the spirits, a man who wanders in search of the road to Paradise. He holds his lantern in a hollowed out pumpkin, and inside it there would be a burning firebrand from the embers of hell.

That man is Jack!
Jack O' Lantern.

But who was Jack?
The only ordinary man who has a feast day dedicated to him that by now is celebrated the world over.

Why do we celebrate him on Halloween night?

Hardly anyone knows his story; "To hell with them!" Jack would say.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150918856
Publisher:	Kentauron
Publication date:	10/03/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	207,540
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Wirton Arvel is above all a poet who tries to encourage the promotion and love of poetry, especially among who only enjoy reading prose works.

With this aim in mind he has wrote a book of "narrated poems" which is entitled "Wandering among the stars": it's a literary experiment where prose and poetry are intermingled like soul and body, in order to create a story that looks like a work of prose, but at the same time arouses the emotions, like poetry. This book has been a hit and has remained for more than twelve consecutive months among the bestsellers of its category in the Italian Kindle Store.

Besides his work as a writer, he has also edited several bilingual editions with English parallel texts: among them there are some classics of literature such as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, "Three men in a boat" by Jerome K. Jerome, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Adventures of Pinocchio (The Tale of a Puppet)" by Carlo Collodi, "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

He has also edited some anthologies of Italian and English poetry, among which "Aedi, Bardi e Poeti - Cantori, Trovatori e Vati (Poetry Anthology: XII-XIV centuries [with Occitan and Italian poems])", "101 poems worth reading in London and New York..." (Anthology of English poetry, from Shakespeare to the beginning of the twentieth century)

Editorial Reviews

The story is more of a prose poem, with Arvel's descriptive language coming forth in one, long, paragraph-length-sentence after another. The effect of Arvel's writing style is often soothingly hypnotic, with readers not so much interested in what Jack is doing or why, but in how Arvel will describe it. As a result, each individual chapter of the book (there are 17 chapters) is quite poetic.

Steve Silverscreenvideos

A Jack O'Lantern Tale is a beautifully written story. I loved how the author Wirton Arvel have captured my attention with his intricate details of Jack, from his origins to his unending journey.

Claire Coffeebookmom