Goose Fair: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Goose Fair: A Novel

We had thought they were bronze, and sorrowed for them. But one day they became flesh, and we sighed for them. This is their story, the story of David and Diana, the youth of Palestine and the maiden of Greece, now lovers in London.

Every first Thursday in October, following the custom of centuries, the good people of the city whose Sheriff was so soundly abused by Robin Hood, take leave of their senses. It is a licensed leave, whose charter is lost in antiquity, and was old when Edward I restored its privileges to the Burgesses of Nottingham, maintaining the right to. Hold a Goose Fair.

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