Swallows & Amazons ; Winter Holiday
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 9780091754112
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Winter Holiday
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Winter Holiday" by Arthur Ransome. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
"Swallows, Amazons and Coots"
Author: Julian Lovelock
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: 2016-09-29
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0718844653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories for children. The result was Swallows and Amazons and eleven more wonderful books followed, spanning inpublication the turbulent years from 1930 to 1947. They changed the course of children's literature and have never been out of print since. In them, Ransome creates a world of escape so close to reality that it is utterly believable, a world in which things always turn out right in the end. Yet Swallows, Amazons and Coots shows that, to be properly appreciated today, the novels must be read as products of their era, inextricably bound up with Ransome's life and times as he bore witness to the end of Empire and the dark days of the Second World War. In the first critical book devoted wholly to the series, Julian Lovelock explores each novel in turn, offering an erudite assessment of Ransome's creative process and narrative technique, and highlighting his contradictory politics, his defence of rural England, and his reflections on colonialism and the place of women in society. Thus Lovelock demonstrates convincingly that, despite first appearances, the novels challenge as much as reinforce the pervading attitudes of their time.Written with a lightness of touch and enlivened by Ransome's own illustrations, Swallows, Amazons and Coots is both fresh and nostalgic. It will appeal to anyone who has enjoyed the world of Swallows and Amazons, and there is plenty here to challenge both the student and the Ransome enthusiast."
Winter Holiday
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 1989-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780613771986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follows the adventures of two groups of children who spend a winter holiday by a great lake next to the mountains.
Swallows & Amazons (ALL 12 Adventure Novels)
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-11-21
Total Pages: 2717
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Swallows and Amazons is a series of twelve adventure novels set in the interwar period, involving group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. The series begins with the Walker children from London, who stay at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. They clash on an island in the lake, make friends, and have a series of adventures that weave tales of pirates and exploration into everyday life in rural England. Table of Contents: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern?
Wild Things
Author: Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780814330289
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Winter Holiday
Winter holiday
Author: Arthur Michell Ransome
Publisher:
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13:
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Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-11-21
Total Pages: 2717
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Swallows and Amazons is a series of twelve adventure novels set in the interwar period, involving group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. The series begins with the Walker children from London, who stay at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. They clash on an island in the lake, make friends, and have a series of adventures that weave tales of pirates and exploration into everyday life in rural England. Table of Contents: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern?
The Last Englishman
Author: Roland Chambers
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1567924174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arthur Ransome, best known for the Swallows and Amazons series, led a double, and often tortured, life. Before his fame as an author, he was notorious for very different reasons: between 1917 and 1924, he was the Russian correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian, and his sympathy for the Bolshevik regime gave him access to its leaders, politics, and plots. He was friends with Karl Radek, the Bolshevik's Chief of Propaganda, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the secret police. In this biography, Chambers explores the tensions Ransome felt between his allegiance to England's decencies and the egalitarian Bolshevik vision, between the Lake Country he loved and always considered home and the lure of the Russian steppes to which he repeatedly returned. What emerges is not only history, but also the story of an immensely troubled man not entirely at home in either culture or country.
