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Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United KingdomAucott & Thomas
AbeBooks seller since May 9, 2001
Condition: Used - Very good
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Very clean & tightly bound hardback book, pages age tanned, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. 192 pages, illustrations in the text, references, bibliography, index.
Seller Inventory # 67817
- Title
- Approaching Arthur Ransome
- Author
- Hunt, Peter
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224032887
- ISBN 13
- 9780224032889
- Edition
- First Edition.
Dr Hunt begins his study with the astonishing stream of writings Ransome produced in his twenties before the First World War - among them books on French literature, on the work of Poe and Wilde, on the pleasures of Bohemian life. For Hunt, three books culled from Ransome's Russian journalism reveal as much about their author as about the turmoil of revolution. These led to a ten-year association with the Manchester Guardian, where Ransome first published his classic fishing essays. Hunt examines the mature technique of the books for children. With the Swallows and Amazons series Ransome invented a new genre, whose sales were to reach many millions. A deep commitment to democracy and freedom (though never licence) is seen as the hallmark of their lasting quality.
These books, together with Ransome's autobiography, continue to have a wide following among adults as well as children. Their author was honoured in 1990, long after his death, with the founding of the Arthur Ransome Society.
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Aucott & Thomas
Ibstock, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since May 9, 2001
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