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  • Private Angelo

    de Eric Linklater ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    This satirical novel of a young innocent caught in the fascist machinery of WWII offers "the drollest medley of muddle and misadventure" ( The Sunday Times, UK).A private in Mussolini's 'ever-glorious' Italian army, Angelo may possess the virtues of love and innocence, but he lacks the gift of courage. And yet, due to circumstances beyond his control, he ends up fighting not only for Italy but ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea

    de Eric Linklater ...
    The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea, written for children, is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and longitudes together to keep the world from splitting. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Wind on the Moon

    de Eric Linklater ...
    Ilustraciones de Nicolas Bentley ...
    A Carnegie Medal winner, this delightful fantasy will appeal to children who love Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows.Major Palfrey is leaving for the wars, and he tells his two girls, Dinah and Dorinda, to be good while he is gone. But the sisters aren’t sure they can be. As Dorinda explains, “When we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Poet's Pub

    de Eric Linklater ...
    A literary Cheers—filled with British charm and witComprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the Pelican Pub in Downish, England, Poet's Pub is a humor-filled collection of stories by award winner Eric Linklater—one of the original titles commissioned by Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane—and again available to American readers. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Dark of Summer

    de Eric Linklater ...
    In the early years of the Second World War an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumours of a collaboration with the Nazi regime in Norway. What he finds changes lives, not least his own.No one who reads this book will forget the frozen corpse tied to a chair in an icehouse guarded by two drunken seamen, or the raging storm which batters their, ship as they carry the body to ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Defence of Calais

    The Army at War Series

    de Eric Linklater ...
    It is a tale of defeat, but when defeat is characterised by valour of a certain pitch and quality, its memory may outlast a tale of victory. And like the Burghers who came with ropes about their necks, to offer their lives that a whole people might be spared, the men who fought at Calais, and helped to save a British army, will surely be remembered.In the introduction to The Defence of Calais, ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Northern Garrisons

    The Army at War Series

    de Eric Linklater ...
    The Northern Garrisons visits the soldiers of WWII in some of the most barren and inhospitable of outposts. Eric Linklater, in his mission to document the lives, trials and achievements of these men, travelled to Shetland, Orkney, the Faeroes and Iceland. In Iceland Linklater notes how quickly the soldiers must adapt to their surroundings whilst trying to engage a local population that is somewhat ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Highland Division

    The Army at War Series

    de Eric Linklater ...
    The Highland Territorials were made up of the 51st Division, who had fought bravely in the Great War, and entered WWII with a fearsome and loyal reputation. Here Erik Linklater draws from letters and War diaries alongside the official table of movements to construct a vivid picture of the battles, triumphs, and ultimately defeat, of the Highland Division in France. Not only do we see the tactical ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Det blåser på månen

    de Eric Linklater ...
    Traducido por Hugo Hultenberg ...
    En av de stora barnboksklassikerna i ny utgåvaI den engelska staden Medelby uppmanar Major Rytter sina två döttrar att uppföra sig medan han är borta i krig. Det är en önskan som systrarna Dinah och Dorinda omöjligt kan följa. Varje gång de tycker att de uppför sig kommer nämligen en vuxen och säger åt dem att de är olydiga.Snart har de busiga systrarna övertygat en domare om att domslut ska ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Merry Muse

    de Eric Linklater ...
    A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it.As the manuscript is lost, found again, stolen, and variously shuttles back and forth, the infection of its bawdiness ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Raft / Socrates Asks Why

    de Eric Linklater ...
    Are the people of Britain capable of serving the new world, of writing with honour a new chapter of history? The answer, conclusively, is Yes.… But Socrates, in the third of the pieces, has still to be satisfied that the Allies are truly conscious of their purpose. A four-fold rule of law is not enough: the peace within that rule must not be an idle peace, but creative. If that is not explicitly ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Ripeness is All

    de Eric Linklater ...
    When the celibate Major Gander, C.B., T.D. sold out the family toffee business to American Candy Inc., he was able to retire in comfort. And when he dies from heart failure (it was after a strenuous shoot at the Brackens' Rife Meeting) his gathered relatives found that the thought of his will moderated their grief considerably. For they all felt well placed for at least a few thousand to help them ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD