The Dark o' the Moon - Couverture souple

Crockett, S.R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908933119 ISBN 13 : 9781908933119

Editeur : Ayton Publishing Limited, 2014

Synopsis

‘The stage is filled from the first with red-coats, gipsies, and Galloway ‘Levellers’. Mr Crockett has found again in this sequel to ‘The Raiders’ the inspiration which grey Galloway gives him with its hills and woods and floods. His descriptions of sky and landscape are always in harmony with the action of the story. To the hostile critic of ‘sequels’ it must also be admitted that Mr Crockett has produced what, could it be looked at by itself, would certainly have been accounted a most readable and historic romance.’ As the second part of the Raiders ‘trilogy’, ‘The Dark o’ the Moon’ moves the action on a generation. This time the hero is Maxwell Heron (son of Patrick and May) and the story revolves around The Levellers Revolt of 1724. We are reunited with characters such as Silver Sand, Hector Faa and Marion Tamson as well as ‘historical’ characters such as John MacMillan of Balmaghie and the Hanoverian Princes. Crockett adopts his familiar style of appropriating big historical events and placing them firmly into the stories of fictional ordinary people to illustrate how history affects everyone. There is action, adventure, mystery, subterfuge and love affairs in abundance and from beginning to end, nothing is ever what it seems. The Galloway Collection is a wholly new edited version of the works of S.R.Crockett, not a reprinted facsimile or a scanned copy. Ayton Publishing Limited is committed to achieving a high production standard at a reasonable price. The original conventions of punctuation and style have been kept where appropriate but each volume has been individually edited, typeset, proofed and produced to modern standards and includes an original introduction by series editor Cally Phillips.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

‘Crockett may succeed to some extent in doing for Galloway what Scott did for Midlothian and other parts of Scotland.’ S.R.Crockett was a bestselling author from the 1890’s through to his death in 1914. His work still appeals to those who love stories packed with history, adventure and romance and is now brought back into publication for a new generation by Ayton Publishing Limited, to mark the centenary of his death.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ayton Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908933119
• ISBN 13: 9781908933119
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 418
• Éditeur: Phillips Cally
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible