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Arthur Ransome


(Arthur Mitchell Ransome)
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Arthur Mitchell Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and educated in Windermere and Rugby.

In 1902, Ransome abandoned a chemistry degree to become a publisher's office boy in London. He used this precarious existence to practise writing, producing several minor works before Bohemia in London (1907), a study of London's artistic scene and his first significant book.

Today Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of novels, (1931 - 1947). All remain in print and have been widely translated.

Arthur Ransome died in June 1967 and is buried at Rusland in the Lake District.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction
 
Series
Swallows and Amazons
   1. Swallows and Amazons (1930)
   2. Swallowdale (1931)
   3. Peter Duck (1932)
   4. Winter Holiday (1933)
   5. Coot Club (1934)
   6. Pigeon Post (1936)
   7. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937)
   8. Secret Water (1939)
   9. The Big Six (1940)
   10. Missee Lee (1941)
   11. The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
   12. Great Northern? (1947)
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