The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All (Swallows And Amazons)

Author: Ransome, Arthur

Brand: Red Fox

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 01-10-2001

Part Number: 9780099427278

Details: Product Description


The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry (but breaking out at night), while Dick and Dorothea become Picts, secret inhabitants of the country who must never let themselves be seen. It's a desperate gamble to keep everyone out of trouble - but can it possibly work against the eagle eyes of the fearsome Great Aunt?


Review


Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written ―
Times Literary Supplement

Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure ―
Glasgow Herald

Stands out in triumph ―
Times Literary Supplement


From the Back Cover


“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


About the Author


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. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.

EAN: 9780099427278

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English