Swallows and Amazons - Hardcover

Ransome, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022460631X ISBN 13: 9780224606318

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 1982

Inhaltsangabe

A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are accepted as friends by children everywhere, not to mention plots which are eminently plausible and unexpected.' SUNDAY TIMES, in an article listing Swallows and Amazons among '99 Best Books for Children.

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He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure. "Observer" There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating. "TLS""

Biografía del autor:

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 022460631X
• ISBN 13: 9780224606318
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384