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The Island of Horses by Ellis Dillon
34.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: NYRB Children's Classics
The people of remote Inishrone, a few miles off the Connemara coast, know better than to go to the Island of Horses. Everyone has heard tales of men who have gone there and never come back. Yet one day young Pat Conroy and his friend Danny MacDonagh head off anyway, telling their parents that they are f ...Show more
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Peter Opie
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-da ...Show more
The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece."--Phoebe Lou Adams, The Atlantic An NYRB Classics Original Patrick Leigh ...Show more
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: NYRB CHILDRENS CLASSICS
In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters tobehave themselves while he is off at war. Sighing, Dinah says, I think that we arequite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be, and her sister, Dorinda, addshelpfully, Very often, when we think we are behaving well, ...Show more