by Robert Browning · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780146003318
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«The Pied Piper of Hamelin» is Robert Browning's narrative children's poem, published by Penguin in paperback (64 pages, in English).
The poem recreates the medieval legend of Hamelin: a mysterious piper frees the town from a plague of rats with his music and, when the promised payment is not received, plays his pipe again with a vengeance that marks the people. Told in verse, it combines a fairy-tale tone with a moral about broken promises and betrayed trust.
This edition, published on 4 April 1996, belongs to the Penguin Children's 60s collection and is an abridged version.
Recommended for child and young adult readers, especially as an introduction to narrative poetry in English.
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
