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A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Sonata for Harp and Bicycle," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Sonata for Harp and Bicycle" - Gale
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Sonata for Harp and Bicycle
Joan Aiken
1976
Introduction
Joan Aiken is an English writer of short stories, novels, plays, and poetry in all of the fantastic literary genres: fantasy, horror, mystery thrillers, fairy tales, and ghost stories. Though known primarily as a children's author, she has a long list of adult fiction as well; readers, she says, are not readily segregated into groups and like to read across age lines. Her most famous children's book, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, for instance, is read by children and adults and has been made into a film. This novel made her famous in the 1960s for inventing a new genre that mixes details of history with fantasy in a way that changes history. Aiken's wild and inventive imagination has delighted generations of children with fantasy series such as the Arabel and Mortimer
books, about a young girl and a talking raven. However, although Aiken has been appreciated, she is perhaps underrated as being merely a popular author.
A few critics have noted that her best contribution is in her short stories, both thrillers and lovely original fairy tales, such as Over the Cloudy Mountain
from The Winter Sleepwalker. Aiken loved the classic fantasy authors and learned from George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, and E. Nesbit. Without preaching, Aiken creates amoral universe with courageous and inventive characters unafraid of confronting evil. She believes stories should leave the reader feeling wonder and hope. This is evident in her Christmas ghost story, Sonata for Harp and Bicycle
(1976), in which a pair of lovers lay London ghosts to rest on Christmas Eve. The story is contained in the 1978 Penguin collection A Bundle of Nerves.
Author Biography
Aiken was born on September 4, 1924, in Rye, East Sussex, England, to American Pulitzer Prize—winning poet Conrad Aiken and his Canadian-born wife, Jessie MacDonald. Her mother had a master's degree from Radcliffe and taught Joan at home until she was twelve. Aiken's parents divorced, and her mother remarried Martin Armstrong, a British novelist. Joan had an older brother, John, and sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, who also became
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