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Solveig
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Ankou is a story of Death in Brittany and three old men wondering who of them will be the last to die that year, and so Death personified in their village for the next year.
— Jun 02, 2016 10:07AM
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Solveig
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The Shepherd's Pipe is very much a grown-up tale, with human cruelty and carelessness in a Russian village.
— Jun 02, 2016 04:02AM
Solveig
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The Cloudburst is to my mind a typical Ransome tale: It is a slice of every day life, with perfectly believable, capable children dealing with a scary situation the best way they know how, helping each other.
— May 29, 2016 02:49AM
Solveig
is on page 56 of 184
Apparently this no-teaching-on-Wednesday-afternoon is a wider British phenomenon than I was aware of: in the little Lakeland school of "The River Comes First" it is also the rule.
— May 25, 2016 03:12PM
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is on page 3 of 184
Introduction to Arthur Ransome, the storyteller, though the author thinks most people picking up this book won't need it.
— May 25, 2016 01:13AM
