Posted by Peter H on May 24, 2002 at 11:18:00 from 213.122.133.166 user Peter_H.
In this week’s ‘Spectator’ (in the UK) there is an interesting review of ‘Racundra’s Third Cruise’ by one Jeremy Swift. Here are some extracts:
‘Arthur Ransome remains an enigma.’
SA: ‘Published in 1930, it was an immediate success and led to a series of books recounting the adventures of a band of feral children living what now seems an impossibly charmed and free life in the lakes and woods of the Norfolk Broads and the Lake District...
Something in Ransome’s understated style and finely drawn characters has made the stories more durable than most in the genre, and these pastoral fantasies were an important influence in the childhood of many people still alive today. That they were written by a friend of Lenin, who also wrote possibly the best eye-witness account of the Russian revolution, is hard to believe’.
To read the full review, go to the Speccie website (www.spectator.co.uk) and click on ‘This week’s book reviews’