The Green Child Author:Herbert Read First published in 1935, The Green Child is Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else,this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South American Pampas and then to a mysterious and eternal underground land of caves. — TS El... more »iot once said that he considered The Green Child to be one of the finest examples of English prose style of our century.« less