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  • Private Angelo

    par Eric Linklater ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Dark of Summer

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Wind on the Moon

    par Eric Linklater ...
    Illustré par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Raft / Socrates Asks Why

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Poet's Pub

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • The Merry Muse

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Defence of Calais

    The Army at War Series

    par 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, ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Northern Garrisons

    The Army at War Series

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Highland Division

    The Army at War Series

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Magnus Merriman

    par Eric Linklater ...
    Collections Livre 12 - Canongate Classics
    This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman-would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter-moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat.Convinced that 'small nations are safer to live in than big ones', Magnus becomes a Nationalist candidate for the parliamentary seat of 'Kinluce'.With details based on Linklater's own ... En savoir plus

    $18.69 CAD

  • A Terrible Freedom

    par Eric Linklater ...
    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 depth and in such glowing reality that he is able to escape his extraordinary existence. We learn of his double life as scenes from Gaffikin's real life alternate with ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD