Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Ransome

by Arthur Ransome, Delphi Classics (Editor)

The English interwar writer Arthur Ransome, best known for the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ children’s books, is noted for popularising the pattern for “holiday adventure” stories. A writer of various genres, his first success, ‘Bohemia in London’, is a partly autobiographical account of his early days. He also published a noted general ‘History of Story-Telling’, as well as landmark critical works on Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde. During the Great War, Ransome worked as a war correspondent in Russia, where he studied native folktales, which he retold for children. He also wrote extensively about his passion of angling, producing the seminal work in its field, ‘Rod and Line’. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Ransome’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* 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 Swallows and Amazons BooksSwallows 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 BooksThe 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 NovelThe Elixir of Life (1915)The Short StoriesMiscellaneous StoriesThe Non-FictionThe 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 AutobiographyThe Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (1976)

7441 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2023

About the author

Arthur Michell Ransome (January 18, 1884 – June 3, 1967) was an English author and journalist. He was educated in Windermere and Rugby.

In 1902, Ransome abandoned a chemistry degree to become a publisher's office boy in London. He used this precarious existence to practice writing, producing several minor works before Bohemia in London (1907), a study of London's artistic scene and his first significant book.

An interest in folklore, together with a desire to escape an unhappy first marriage, led Ransome to St. Petersburg, where he was ideally placed to observe and report on the Russian Revolution. He knew many of the leading Bolsheviks, including Lenin, Radek, Trotsky and the latter's secretary, Evgenia Shvelpina. These contacts led to persistent but unproven accusations that he "spied" for both the Bolsheviks and Britain.

Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924. Settling in the Lake District, he spent the late 1920s as a foreign correspondent and highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian, before settling down to write Swallows and Amazons and its successors.

Today Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of novels, (1931 - 1947). All remain in print and have been widely translated.

Arthur Ransome died in June 1967 and is buried at Rusland in the Lake District.