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Ransome, Arthur

 
9780224042611: Signalling From Mars
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ISBN 10: 0224042610 ISBN 13: 9780224042611
Editorial: Jonathan Cape, 1997

Sinopsis

"The appeal of this hugely enjoyable book lays far beyond that unusually acsribed to volumes of letters - it is a `must' for every singl member of the very lively and active Arthur Ransome Society (now numbering 1, 800) and it will be a revelation to millions more who have grown up in the last 65 years with `Swallows and Amazons'." "Hugh Brogan writes in his Introduction- `Ransome in large part lived through his correspondence. He wrote letters as easily as we make phone calls (He did not possess a telephone until he was in his fifties). Their language is still vital with his character. Hundreds survive and add up to a literary achievement that deserves to be put in print as much as his stories for children. We seem to come especially close to the man writing. . . and because of the letters'spontaneity, I have let them compose themselves into a portrait of the writer in all his boyisness, his energy, his intellegence, his geniality (and his fretfulness)and the immense variety of his skills and interests'. Brogan says he has `tried to be as light-hearted an editor as possible producing `a reader-friendly selection rather than a definitive edition of documents'. He begins with Ransome in St Petersburg at the start of the Great War in 1914, and includes a breif commentary as well as some of the drawings with which Ransome decorated his correspondance."

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Reseña del editor

Hugh Brogan writes in his Introduction: `Ransome in large part lived through his correspondence. He wrote letters as easily as we make phone calls (He did not possess a telephone until he was in his fifties). Their language is still vital with his character. Hundreds survive and add up to a literary achievement that deserves to be put in print as much as his stories for children. We seem to come especially close to the man writing. . . and because of the letters'spontaneity, I have let them compose themselves into a portrait of the writer in all his boyisness, his energy, his intellegence, his geniality (and his fretfulness)and the immense variety of his skills and interests'. Brogan says he has `tried to be as light-hearted an editor as possible producing `a reader-friendly selection rather than a definitive edition of documents'. He begins with Ransome in St Petersburg at the start of the Great War in 1914, and includes a breif commentary as well as some of the drawings with which Ransome decorated his correspondance.

Reseña del editor

Ransome lived through his correspondence, and this work begins with him in St Petersburg at the start of World War I, and includes a brief commentary as well as some of the drawings with which Ransome decorated his letters.

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Editorial
Jonathan Cape
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0224042610
ISBN 13 
9780224042611
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
384
Contacto del fabricante
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