“In a story whose telling reflects the simplicity of a folklore tale, The Carpenter of Auguliere begins… The simplicity of the telling is straightforward, as if it has been told over and over…”
---Chevy Chaser/Southsider Magazines.

The work is a parable about people, their struggles and how they overcome them, it’s a fable that celebrates life, it’s a story of good and evil as seen from the eyes of a young girl.

"The excitement of rediscovering fear, anger and hate with a backdrop of loss, reminds us that we are still human and still vulnerable" remarked Cynthia Rider, of RiderCreations.com

And "At last, an old fashioned story not based on sex or violence.  In this remote village, the ageless struggles of good and evil never lost their grip" commented Barry W. Metcalf, author of Nightmare in Alice Springs.

“It came to me in a dream, it woke me up in the middle of the night, it persisted in my mind, it demanded to be written,” says Dworsky on the Morton Mecklosky Talk Show on WUSB 90.1 FM June 26, 2006.

Although he grew up in New Jersey, D. Wayne Dworsky was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1944. He recognized his love of nature at a very young age. In 1980 he graduated from Herbert H. Lehman College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and launched his career in education in 1984 by teaching mathematics, which would span 21 years. Between 1983 and 1984 he achieved recognition in the Mohonk Preserve in the Shawangunks as a first-class rock climber, which led to his conquest of the Matterhorn in Zermat, Switzerland in 1985.  In 1987 he received his Master's Degree from City College. In 2004 he retired from teaching and began to publish. He is also the author of Touching the Sky, A Book of Endearing Poetry and The Teachers Always Write, Quips from the Classroom, the Airport and the Subway. He now resides with his family in New York City.