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Eric Linklater
Book List in Order: 15 titles
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The Wind on the Moon
- Apr-2004
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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 t...
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The Goose Girl and Other Stories
- Oct-2011
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Eric Linklater was one of the most respected and prolific Scottish writers of this century, yet more than twenty-five years have passed since his last collection of short stories was published.
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The Impregnable Women
- Oct-2011
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The Next Great War begins, and soon all Europe is involved. The war lasts a year - and then the women, robbed of husbands and sweethearts and sons, grow doubtful of the benefits of military policy, and begin to think that victory will come too late t...
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A Man Over Forty
- Oct-2011
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Eric Linklater's command of language and situation, and his gifts for humour and storytelling have seldom been better displayed than in A Man Over Forty, first published in 1963.
Edward Balintore is the archetypal television personalit... -
The Merry Muse
- Oct-2011
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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...
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The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea
- Oct-2011
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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....
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A Spell for Old Bones
- Dec-2011
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"When the giants fell, old bones revived" - there is the rubric for Eric Linklater's new story, first published in 1949. There may be no historical foundation for his tale of a fantastic war, in the First century A.D., between the giant F...
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A Terrible Freedom
- Dec-2011
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First published in 1966, Eric Linklater's brilliant novel tells the story of a double existence.
Evan Gaffikin, sixtyish, grumpy and bored with his dull commercial success, discovers and develops his power to dream: to dream in such de... -
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Poet's Pub
- Jun-2012
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A literary Cheers -- filled with British charm and wit Comprised 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 ...
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The Dark of Summer
- Sep-2012
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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 wi... -
Juan in China
- Jan-2013
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The earlier adventures of Juan Mosely--a lineal descendant of Byron’s Don Juan--are recorded in Juan in America. From America he goes on an amorous adventure to China where he becomes involved in politics and welfare and deals with them in his own ...
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Ripeness is All
- Apr-2013
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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...
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The Raft / Socrates Asks Why
- Jun-2014
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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 ...
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