Books published by publisher Jm Dent

Egils Saga belongs to a group of sagas known as the Islendinga sogur, the sagas of Icelanders. It tells the story of a powerful tenth-century Norwegian family who emigrated to Iceland. It was written down in its present form in the thirteenth century, and the manuscripts in which it survives are mostly fourteenth-century. The present edition is translated and edited by Christine Fell, with translations of the poems by John Lucas. 7.5x5", xxxi+221 pp.

PREFACE The writer of "Granny's Wonderful Chair" was a poet, and blind. That she was a poet the story tells on every page, but of her blindness it tells not a word. From beginning to end it is filled with pictures; each little tale has its own picturesque setting, its own vividly realised scenery. Her power of visualisation would be easy to understand had she become blind in the later years of her life, when the beauties of the physical world were impressed on her mind; but Frances Browne was blind from infancy. The pictures she gives us in her stories were created, in darkness, from material which came to her only through the words of others. In her work are no blurred lines or uncertainties, her drawing is done with a firm and vigorous hand. It would seem that the completeness of her calamity created, within her, that serenity of spirit which contrives the greatest triumphs in Life and in Art. Her endeavour was to realise the world independently of her own personal emotion and needs. She, who, out of her darkness and poverty, might have touched us so surely with her longing for her birthright of light, for her share of the world's good things, gives help and encouragement to the more fortunate. In reading the very few details of her life we feel the stimulation as of watching one who, in a desperate fight, wins against great odds. The odds against Frances Browne were heavy. She was born at Stranorlar, a mountain village in Donegal, on January 16, 1816. Her great-grandfather was a man of considerable property, which he squandered; and the younger generation would seem to have inherited nothing from its ancestor but his irresponsibility. Frances Browne's father was the village post-master, and she, the seventh in a family of twelve children, learning privation and endurance from the cradle. But no soil is the wrong one for genius. Whether or not hers would have developed more richly in more generous surroundings, it is difficult to say. The strong mind that could, in blindness and poverty, secure its own education, and win its way to the company of the best, the thoroughly equipped and well tended, gained a victory which genius alone made possible. She was one of the elect, had no creative achievement crowned her triumph. She tells us how she herself learned by heart the lessons which her brothers and sisters said aloud every evening, in readiness for the next day's school; and how she bribed them to read to her by doing their share of the household work.

"There lingers over some people whom we know a nameless charm," wrote an early admirer of these stories. A charm like this breathes over the stories which Mrs. Ewing has left as an inheritance for English children, and their elders also for all time." This charm lingers more powerfully over Lob than over any of Mrs. Ewing's books, and wafts us back into a delectable past that recalls Cranford. It is the story of a foundling, and of a Brownie -- of the household elf Lob -- woven together very charmingly in its period setting, and its cleverly drawn characters and plot are compelling and irresistible. There is enough mystery to keep us guessing, but the strength of the story lies in the telling, and the picture it presents of the vanished world of a little country place of a hundred years ago. The Story Of A Short Life was illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.

London. 24 cm. 154 p. : ill. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. illustrated by Sara Silcock. "For ages 8-12"-inside upper flap. Half-title. Green paper case binding. Illustrated dust jacket. Contents Streatfeild, N. My summer holidays. --Williams, U. M. The outlaws. --Elizabeth. Teresa. --Du Maurier, D. Extract from Gerald, a portrait. --Fitzgerald, J. D. Andy. --Clewes, D. Lost treasure. --Godden, R. Loving and giving. --Dunsany, Lord. The true story of the hare and the tortoise. --Boyd, E. The story of Grace Darling. --Mahy, M. The trees. --Smith, S. The heavenly city. S. The moonlight bird. --Hunter, M. The midsummer charm. --Cresswell, H. The cuckoo. --Hennell, T. Shepherd and shepherdess .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0460058517