| The Battle of the Strong by Gilbert Parker, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): Parker, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606649930 ISBN-13: 9781606649930 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: "Always, always the white foam beats the rocks . . . and always must men sail warily along these coasts." In a single day, on the wave-swept Island of Jersey, Ranulph Delagarde has seen his mother buried and his father's door locked against him. Breaking his pensive reveries afterwards, a few overheard words threaten to change his life forever: for he hears plans being laid against Jersey, the home of his family for countless generations. And in league with these French plotters, to his dismay, is someone Ranulph knows all too well. He must warn the governor -- but in moments finds himself hurled into a lightless prison. Canadian novelist Sir Gilbert Parker (1862-1932), author of the best-selling novel of the American revolution "The Seats of the Mighty," turns his eye to life on a small island steeped in tradition and generations-old wisdom, in this "Romance of Two Kingdoms." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.31 lbs) 312 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Parker, Gilbert: - "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker (1862 - 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A. The best of his novels are those in which he first took for his subject the history and life of the French Canadians and his permanent literary reputation rests on the fine quality, descriptive and dramatic, of his Canadian stories. Pierre and his People (1892) was followed by Mrs. Falchion (1893), The Trail of the Sword (1894), When Valmond came to Pontiac (1895), An Adventurer of Icy North (1895) and The Seats of the Mighty (1896, dramatized in 1897). The Seats of the Mighty was a historical novel depicting the English conquest of Quebec with James Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm as two of the characters. The Lane that Had No Turning (1900), a collection of short stories set in the fictional Quebec town of Pontiac, contains some of his best work and is viewed by some as being in the tradition of such Gothic classics as Stoker's Dracula and James's The Turn of the Screw. In The Battle of the Strong (1898) he broke new ground, laying his scene in the Channel Islands. His chief later books were The Right of Way (1901), Donovan Pasha (1902), The Ladder of Swords (1904), The Weavers (1907), Northern Lights (1909) and The Judgment House (1913). Parker had three that made it into the top 10 on the annual list of bestselling novels in the United States, two of which were on it for two years in a row." |
