Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 12, 2004 at 10:31:45 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Is AR a 'childrens writer'? posted by Peter Ceresole on October 12, 2004 at 09:44:37:
Just the same can be said of JRR Tolkien's fiction. Loyalty and courage handled very well; no sex, politics or economics. This leads me to the observation that just the same can be said of "Beowulf"!
Ransome is clearly a very good children's writer; his books can be read with advantage by adults and his prose style is one of the very best in English fiction.
I venture that he had had a bellyful of politics, economics and indeed sex, and did not want to write on these subjects, perhaps because they were painful for him.