The Silver Sword (Puffin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Serraillier, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140364528 ISBN 13: 9780140364521

Verlag: Puffin Classics, 1993

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Although the silver sword was only a paper knife, it became the symbol of hope and courage which kept four deserted children alive through the years of occuption, and afterwards on the exhausting and dangerous journey from war-torn Poland to Switzerland, where they hoped to find their parents.

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Ian Serraillier (1912-1994), was a British novelist and poet. Born in London, he was educated at Brighton College, and took his degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was best known for his children's books, especially The Silver Sword published in 1956. As well as children's novels and poetry, Serrailler produced his own retellings of classic tales, in prose and verse, including Beowulf, Chaucer and the Greek myths. Together with his wife Anne he founded the New Windmill Series in 1948, published by Heinemann Educational Books, which set out to provide inexpensive editions of good stories.

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• Verlag: Puffin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140364528
• ISBN 13: 9780140364521
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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