John Masefield
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A children’s time travel adventure of a boy, a wizard, a witch, and a magic box—a beloved Christmas novel in England for generations and adapted into a classic BBC holiday series
A “plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling”–The Washington Post
"A wintry fantasy classic." —Michael Dirda, List of 66 Favorite Books
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A “plum pudding of strange adventures, English legend, and spiritual feeling”–The Washington Post
"A wintry fantasy classic." —Michael Dirda, List of 66 Favorite Books
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Author
Publisher
Williams and Norgate
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A biography of William Shakespeare by John Masefield, an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and "Sea-Fever". (Source: Wikipedia)
3) Gallipoli
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1918.
Language
English
Description
Few accounts of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign are as famous as that of John Masefield, and justly so, for so few have captured the danger, death and heroism on the Peninsula. He saw service as a Red Cross orderly in France and sought to alleviate the plight of the soldier and volunteered his services to motor boat ambulance seeing the battles first-hand. Masefield was a poet of great power, later becoming Poet-Laureate, and set to use all of his...
4) Sard Harker
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1924.
Language
English
Description
On it's surface 'Sard Harker' is an adventure novel, and a very successful one at that, pulling the reader along through to its inevitable conclusion. But, there's much more, than just an adventure story here, including lyrical prose set against a dreamscape of both real and imagined danger.
