Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ransome’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major works
* All the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ novels, with individual contents tables
* Includes Ransome’s original illustrations to the novels
* Many rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare short stories available in no other collection
* Includes Ransome’s rare non-fiction works
* Features the celebrated autobiography – discover Ransome’s intriguing life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Swallows and Amazons Books
Swallows and Amazons (1930)
Swallowdale (1931)
Peter Duck (1932)
Winter Holiday (1933)
Coot Club (1934)
Pigeon Post (1936)
We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea (1937)
Secret Water (1939)
The Big Six (1940)
Missee Lee (1941)
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Great Northern? (1947)
Other Children’s Books
The Child’s Book of the Seasons (1906)
Pond and Stream (1906)
The Things in our Garden (1906)
The Hoofmarks of the Faun (1911)
Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1916)
Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme (1920)
The Soldier and Death (1922)
The Horror Novel
The Elixir of Life (1915)
The Short Stories
Miscellaneous Stories
The Non-Fiction
The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers (1904)
Bohemia in London (1907)
A History of Story-telling (1909)
Edgar Allan Poe (1910)
Oscar Wilde (1912)
Portraits and Speculations (1913)
Six Weeks in Russia (1919)
The Crisis in Russia (1921)
Racundra’s First Cruise (1923)
Rod and Line (1929)
Racundra’s Third Cruise (1972)
The Autobiography
The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (1976)
