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Arthur Ransome (1884–1967)

Autor/a de Swallows and Amazons

105+ obres 15,924 Membres 272 Ressenyes 48 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Children's author Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds, England on January 18, 1884. As a child, he spent many vacations sailing, camping, and exploring the countryside in England's Lake Country. He studied chemistry for one year at Yorkshire College before dropping out to become a writer. He worked mostra'n més for a London publisher and then for the Manchester Guardian newspaper. He wrote his first book, Bohemia in London, in 1907 and went to study folklore in Russia in 1913. In 1916, he published Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of 21 folktales. During World War I, he became a reporter for the Daily News and covered the war on the Eastern Front. While in Russia, he also covered the Russian Revolution in 1917. He eventually settled in England's Lake District with his second wife. In 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons, which was the first book in his well-know Swallows and Amazons series about children who sail and explore the lakes and mountains of England. He drew inspiration for the books from his own childhood memories. In 1936, he won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature for Pigeon Post. He died on June 3, 1967. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Arthur Ransome

Swallows and Amazons (1930) 3,848 exemplars
Swallowdale (1931) — Il·lustrador, algunes edicions1,436 exemplars
Winter Holiday (1933) 1,079 exemplars
Peter Duck : a treasure hunt in the Caribbees (1932) — Autor; Il·lustrador, algunes edicions1,017 exemplars
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937) 984 exemplars
Pigeon Post (1936) — Il·lustrador, algunes edicions948 exemplars
Coot Club (1934) — Autor; Il·lustrador, algunes edicions858 exemplars
Secret Water (1939) 814 exemplars
The Picts and the Martyrs (1942) 766 exemplars
The Big Six (1940) 707 exemplars
Great Northern? (1947) 694 exemplars
Missee Lee (1941) 663 exemplars
Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916) 329 exemplars
Favorite Russian Fairy Tales (1995) 135 exemplars
Racundra's First Cruise (1923) 100 exemplars
Russia in 1919 (1919) 47 exemplars
Coot Club / The big six (1983) 47 exemplars
Oscar Wilde : a critical study (1912) 35 exemplars
Rod and line (1929) 35 exemplars
Pond and stream (1906) 31 exemplars
Bohemia in London (1907) 31 exemplars
Racundra's Third Cruise (2002) 20 exemplars
The crisis in Russia (1921) 15 exemplars
Russian Fairy Tales (1946) 13 exemplars
The soldier & Death (1920) 10 exemplars
Mainly About Fishing (1994) 9 exemplars
Revolutionary Russia (1992) 8 exemplars
A history of story-telling (1909) 8 exemplars
Little Daughter of the Snow (2005) 8 exemplars
Arthur Ransome on fishing (1994) 8 exemplars
Contes des pays de neige (1955) 7 exemplars
Fishing (1955) 5 exemplars
The elixir of life (2018) 4 exemplars
The things in our garden (1906) 4 exemplars
The twilight years 3 exemplars
The Chinese puzzle (1927) 3 exemplars
The hoofmarks of the faun (1911) 3 exemplars
Portraits and Speculations (1913) 2 exemplars
The Swallows and The Amazons (1997) 2 exemplars
Stories by the essayists (1909) 2 exemplars
Wyspa krabów 1 exemplars
Fair cops and glowworms (2011) 1 exemplars
The stone lady 1 exemplars
Drawn at a venture 1 exemplars
[Unknown] 1 exemplars
The blue treacle (1993) 1 exemplars
ATONEMENT, THE 1 exemplars

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Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling (2017) — Il·lustrador, algunes edicions537 exemplars
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Sailing alone around the world, and Voyage of the Liberdade (1948) — Introducció, algunes edicions118 exemplars
The Far Distant Oxus (1937) — Pròleg, algunes edicions116 exemplars
Folk and Fairy Tales (Childcraft) (1949) — Col·laborador — 78 exemplars
Stories for Seven Year Olds (Young Puffin Books) (1964) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
Key Words Reading Scheme: The Open Door to Reading (1967) — Col·laborador — 46 exemplars
Nine Witch Tales (1968) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
A Golden Land (1958) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
A Night in the Luxembourg (1912) — Translator/Preface/Appendix, algunes edicions40 exemplars
Tellers of tales (1946) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions40 exemplars
The cruise of the Teddy (1933) — Introducció, algunes edicions39 exemplars
Adventures Among Books (1901) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions38 exemplars
The Cruise of the Alerte (1890) — Introducció, algunes edicions34 exemplars
Down Channel (1869) — Biographical foreword, algunes edicions33 exemplars
The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy (1867) — Introducció, algunes edicions32 exemplars
Witches, Witches, Witches (1958) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Swallows and Amazons [2016 film] (2016) — Original book — 29 exemplars
The Cruise of the Kate (1953) — Introducció, algunes edicions24 exemplars
Tales of Dungeons and Dragons (1986) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
The Falcon on the Baltic (1888) — Introducció, algunes edicions20 exemplars
Annual Macabre 1998 (1998) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
The wind in the sails (1948) — Traductor, algunes edicions12 exemplars
A Second Storyteller's Choice (1965) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Tales (1978) — Editor, algunes edicions12 exemplars
The Country Child (1992) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
The book of the fly-rod (1921) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
A week (1922) — Traductor, algunes edicions; Introducció, algunes edicions6 exemplars
Interviews given to foreign correspondents (1970) — Interviewer — 6 exemplars
Chosen for Children (1957) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Stories by Théophile Gautier (1836) — Editor — 5 exemplars
Writing Books for Boys and Girls (1952) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions5 exemplars
The constant fisherman (1957) — Pròleg, algunes edicions4 exemplars
Stories by Prosper Mérimée (1908) — Editor — 4 exemplars
The Cremona Violin (1817) — Traductor, algunes edicions4 exemplars
Stories by Gustave Flaubert (1910) — Editor; Introducció — 3 exemplars
Stories by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1817) — Editor — 3 exemplars
Stories by Daudet and Coppée — Editor — 3 exemplars
Stories by Chateaubriand (1909) — Editor; Introducció; Traductor — 2 exemplars
The Children's Own Treasure Book (1947) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
F. W. Hirst by his friends (1958) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1908) — Editor — 2 exemplars
Stories by Honoré de Balzac (1909) — Editor — 2 exemplars
The dream garden : a children's annual (1905) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Stories by Cervantes (1909) — Editor; Editor — 2 exemplars
Mixed moss, vol. 1, no. 1, 1990 (1990) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Collecting our thoughts (2015) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Odd Volume, 1912 (1912) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The tramp, January 1911 (1911) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The World's Best Stories for Boys and Girls: Second Series (1930) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Essays of the year (1929-1930) (1930) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Stories for girls — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1908) — Editor — 1 exemplars
You and your reading — Col·laborador, algunes edicions1 exemplars
Das Forum, year 4, issue 6 (March 1920) (1920) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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I loved [Amazons and Swallows], the first book in the famous children's series by British author, Arthur Ransome. Chronologically this book is second, although it was published third. In hindsight I wish I had read it in publication order, because we learn in [Swallowdale] that [Peter Duck] is a fictional tale written by one of the characters. That goes a long way to explaining some of the things I did not like about it, thinking that it was meant to be realistic.

The children have gathered in Lowestoft to join Captain Flint (Nancy and Peggy's uncle) on the schooner Wild Cat. They meet a crusty old salt named Peter Duck who volunteers to fill in for the other adult who is delayed and can't join them. Peter tells them a yarn about being shipwrecked as a ship's boy and seeing pirates bury treasure at the foot of a palm tree. Excited by the prospect of real buried treasure, Captain Flint and the Swallows and Amazons crew are off for the Caribbees, trailed by the notorious pirate Black Jake and The Viper. Adventures abound and once more the children must rely on their wits and each other as they sail across the Atlantic.

Although the middle of the book dragged a bit, the action in the last third is nonstop excitement. I look forward to returning to England and the adventures of the Swallows and Amazon in a more realistic setting.
… (més)
 
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labfs39 | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Feb 3, 2024 |
I liked it, it was a fun read. There was A LOT of boating terminology, which I don't understand; at first it wasn't so bad, but I found myself having to skim entire paragraphs that were simply describing how parts of the boat were working. For this I'm knocking off a star because it really did take up quite a lot of the book. Aside from that I found the plot and writing charming.
 
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blueskygreentrees | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Jan 4, 2024 |
The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are on school holiday in the Lake District and are sailing a borrowed catboat named "Swallow," when they meet the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy), who sail the boat, "Amazon." The children camp together on Wild Cat Island where a plot is hatched against the Blackett's Uncle Jim who is too busy writing his memoirs to be disturbed.

Fireworks--literally--ensue along with a dangerous contest, a run-in with houseboat burglars, and the theft of Uncle Jim's manuscript. How all this is resolved makes for an exciting and very satisfying story.… (més)
 
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PlumfieldCH | Hi ha 82 ressenyes més | Dec 28, 2023 |
The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are on school holiday in the Lake District and are sailing a borrowed catboat named "Swallow," when they meet the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy), who sail the boat, "Amazon." The children camp together on Wild Cat Island where a plot is hatched against the Blackett's Uncle Jim who is too busy writing his memoirs to be disturbed.

Fireworks--literally--ensue along with a dangerous contest, a run-in with houseboat burglars, and the theft of Uncle Jim's manuscript. How all this is resolved makes for an exciting and very satisfying story.… (més)
 
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PlumfieldCH | Hi ha 82 ressenyes més | Sep 23, 2023 |

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Obres
105
També de
60
Membres
15,924
Popularitat
#1,424
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
272
ISBN
458
Llengües
11
Preferit
48

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