Books with author Richard Gunther

A small boy arrives with his father in a foreign land, but disaster strikes. This book covers some of the prehistory of the land of Perpetuis, and details the coming of the great Labyrinthian ship, the first dwarfs, a great journey, a dangerous battle, and the beginning of Maestro's life as a young wizard. This book is essential in the jigsaw of stories that make up the whole series in Ben Journeyman's adventures.

In book two of the Chronicles of Ben Journeyman, a dwarf called Boldface Pathcutter comes to his aid. Ben is greatly helped by this brave dwarf, and goes through many strange and wonderful adventures with him. Book two tells us where Boldface came from, his parents and family, and how he came to be called 'Shieldmaker to kings'. In this book his story starts before Ben arrives, and tells of a war, and wizards, eagles and spells, and a mighty victory. Dragons fall, and an army is defeated, and through it all Boldface battles his own fears, and overcomes many obstacles as he is prepared by the Great King for his next adventure - the one that starts when Ben Journeyman arrives. For people who like a big story, with many characters, book two is another chunk of the essential history of the land and the people in the Journeyman world.

Sereno Dreamworld, the good humour wizard has allowed himself to be locked up in the castle's tower. Through guile and cruelty the evil King Hornwin positioned himself above all those who challenged his rule over the kingdom he usurped from the widowed Queen Prisma. He has locked up Sereno's long friend Princess Sophie. And there she weeps discourage and starving. With death threats on the Queen and her daughter the King Hornwin keeps the great wizard at bay. An evil king, a plucky wizard and a cat. These are just a few of the new characters you'll discover in the book The Cat and the Sleeping Wizard. Step into another part of the history of the land of Perpetuis, a land first discovered by Ben Journeyman in book one. Perpetuis if filled with many dark secrets, devious villains and mighty warriors, and you'll also meet for the first time a most unlikely hero. Magic and courage, determination and surprise, all mingled together to make this book number four an important part of the ongoing series.

Heleena, daughter of the great warrior Shamgar, goes with two humble dwarf boys on a quest - to rid the land of an evil wizard, and set Bowlong, the king's servant, free from a deadly poison. She succeeds in one but an astonishing visitor arrives to accomplish the second.Follow the dwarfs and Mendicantius the good wizard as they battle to save the land of Perpetuis in this, book eleven of the Ben Journeyman series.

A queen and a princess, a buried, ancient secret, a voyage over treacherous seas, a mountain that cannot be climbed, and magic, lots of magic - these are some of the amazing things you'll find in this book set in the land of Perpetuis. How can a blind boy help a castle under seige? How can an old woman cross a mountain pass? You'll find the answers here, in this new, grand adventure. Five stories, woven together by a common threat of evil make up book eight, the battle for Norwood castle.

This book is the history of Grismarrow, the dragon that fell, injured, into the crater of Red Mountain. There he lay dying and would have ended his years but for the coming of Arcumenius the kindly and wise wizard who tried to heal him. But the wizard's mercy led to a terrible disaster.What happened after that, and the adventures of three young trainee wizards, and the saving of Shiloh, are all recorded in book nine of the Chronicles.

The historian who wishes to relate the history of painting in the nineteenth century is confronted with quite other demands than await him who undertakes the art of an earlier period. The greatest difficulty with which the latter has to cope is the deficiency of sources. He manifestly gropes in the dark with regard to the works of the masters as well as to the circumstances of their lives. After he has searched archives and libraries in order to collect his biographical material, the real critical problem awaits him. Even amongst the admittedly authentic works, those which are undated confront those whose chronology is certain. To these must be added those nameless ones, as to whose history there is a doubt; to these again, those whose origin is to be ascertained. It needs a quick eye to separate the schools and groups, and finally to recognise the notes which are peculiar to the master.With none of these difficulties is the historian of modern art confronted. The painters of the nineteenth century have very seldom forgotten to attach a name and date to their works, and the circumstances of their lives are related with an accuracy that was, earlier, rarely the lot of the foremost men in history. It is all the more difficult, face to face with such a chaos of pictures, to discover the spiritual bond which connects them all, to construct a building out of the immense supply of accumulated bricks, the piled-up mass of rough material. The evolution of modern painting is more complicated and varied than that of the art of an earlier period, just as modern life itself is more complicated and varied than that of any previous age.