Seven Little Australians - Couverture souple

Turner, Ethel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1605121894 ISBN 13 : 9781605121895

Editeur : Akasha Classics, 2008

Synopsis

The Seven Little Australians is an anarchic and joyful look at family life, set in nineteenth century Sydney. What do you do with seven wild, unruly children? If you are Captain Woolcot, father of the brood, the answer is 'not much'. Their young stepmother Esther is scarcely older than they are and not much help either. So Meg, Pip, Judy, Bunty, Nell, Baby and "the General" are left in their country home to make mischief - and what adventures they have! First published in 1894, Ethel Turner's classic is the most famous and beloved children's book to come out of Australia.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Set in Sydney in the 1890s, this is a delightful taste of an Australian childhood as experienced by the seven unruly Woolcot children. Meg, Pip, Judy, Bunty, Nell, Poor Baby and the General are as far from model children as you can get. Living with their strict, military father and his second young wife, the Woolcot children find it endlessly difficult to behave themselves - at least in the way their father would wish. They ceaselessly hatch plans and end up in terrible scrapes, always incurring the wrath of their father and the despair of their stepmother. Though this is, for the most part, a light-hearted, though hugely absorbiing profile of a large eccentric family, it's a tragic ending which is guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes. When Judy, the wildest and most uncontrollable, but dearly loved sibling is is killed by a falling tree while recovering from a bout of TB. This is a classic novel, televised in the 1970s by the BBC.

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in Yorkshire, Ethel Turner moved to Australia as a young woman where, in 1894 and at a mere 21, she wrote Seven Little Australians, which has been a consistent seller from the time of its publication. Ethel Turner continued to write and died in 1958.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Akasha Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1605121894
• ISBN 13: 9781605121895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible