Author: William Earl Johns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biggles (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The First Biggles Omnibus
Author: William Earl Johns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biggles (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biggles (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
From Soldier to Storyteller
Author: Kathleen Broome Williams
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476652074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Many of the best-known and most popular children's stories of the 20th and early 21st century were written by veterans of World War I and World War II. These include works by such writers as A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. Although they had experienced war, most of the veterans did not overtly write about it. The seeming paradox of warriors who went through searing combat and then wrote books for children has not been addressed collectively before now. The essays in this book explore what motivated these veterans to write for children, what they wrote, and how their writing was influenced by the wars they lived through. It examines how their combat experience can be traced in their writing, however subtly, whether it was stories about a bear and his piglet companion, a World War I flying ace, or a flying car. Their reactions to war, as reflected in their writing, yield important lessons about the complicated legacy of the 20th century's two great conflicts and their long-lasting impact--through children--on society at large.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476652074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Many of the best-known and most popular children's stories of the 20th and early 21st century were written by veterans of World War I and World War II. These include works by such writers as A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. Although they had experienced war, most of the veterans did not overtly write about it. The seeming paradox of warriors who went through searing combat and then wrote books for children has not been addressed collectively before now. The essays in this book explore what motivated these veterans to write for children, what they wrote, and how their writing was influenced by the wars they lived through. It examines how their combat experience can be traced in their writing, however subtly, whether it was stories about a bear and his piglet companion, a World War I flying ace, or a flying car. Their reactions to war, as reflected in their writing, yield important lessons about the complicated legacy of the 20th century's two great conflicts and their long-lasting impact--through children--on society at large.
British Children's Writers, 1914-1960
Author: Donald R. Hettinga
Publisher: Detroit, MI : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Essays on authors and poets in this volume represent some of the best-known writers of children's literature in the twentieth century. This period is marked by certain characteristics, such as stories of groups of children bonded together, the emergence of strong female protagonists, the "career books", and a consciously subdued presence of pain and suffering. Many of these works are valued for the window they provided upon a culture now gone
Publisher: Detroit, MI : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Essays on authors and poets in this volume represent some of the best-known writers of children's literature in the twentieth century. This period is marked by certain characteristics, such as stories of groups of children bonded together, the emergence of strong female protagonists, the "career books", and a consciously subdued presence of pain and suffering. Many of these works are valued for the window they provided upon a culture now gone
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
The Whole Story
Author: John E. Simkin
Publisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.
Publisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description