The Picts & the Martyrs: Not Welcome at All (Swallows and Amazons) - Softcover

Ransome, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567924301 ISBN 13: 9781567924305

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Jibbooms and bobstays! Those two Blackett sisters are back at it again, and Nancy is right there in the thick of it. Their mother (doubtless suffering from exhaustion) has gone off sailing in the North Sea with Captain Flint on a rest cure, but she has allowed her two daughters to stay a fortnight at Beckfoot on the lakeshore with their trusty cook. She's also permitted their two old friends, Dick and Dorothea Callum, to come up for a visit. But when their redoubtable Great Aunt (aka G. A.) hears of their abandonment, she's horrified and off on the next train. The Amazons are dismayed; not only will their solo holiday be ruined but now they'll have to hide their two guests in the woods in an abandoned shepherd's cottage (where they'll be forced to live off the land like savages, ergo "The Picts") while they'll be required to dress up in white pinafores, practice the pianoforte, and recite reams of parlor poetry aloud (ergo "The Martyrs"). Not much stretch here; no one dares trifle with

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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)

Book Description:

The poor old Amazons become Martyrs and the Ds become Picts who live in the woods, in Arthur Ransome's 11th adventure.

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1567924301
• ISBN 13: 9781567924305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304