Buy this book on-line BROGAN,HUGH - Selected & Introduced by: : Signalling from Mars: The Letters of Arthur RansomeLONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1997. ISBN 0224042610.
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Hugh Brogan writes in his Introduction: 'Ransome in large art lived through his correspondence.he wrote letters as easily as we make phone calls (he did not possess a telephone until he was in his fifties). Their language is still vital with his character.Hundreds survive and add up to a literary achievement that deserves to be put into print as much as his stories for children.We seem to come especially close to the man writing . . . and because of the letter's spontaneity,I have let them compose themselves into a portrait of the writer,in all his boyishness,his energy, his intelligence,his geniality (and his fretfulness) and the immense variety of his skills and interests.' Brogan says he has 'tried to be as light-handed an editor as possible',producing 'a reader-friendly selection rather than a definitive edition of the documents'.
He begins with Ransome in St Petersburg at the start of the Great War in 1914 and as a witness of the Russian Revolution; then charts his stormy marriages,his love of large yachts (of which he owned five) and his tribulations writing the 'Swallows and Amazons' books which brought him lasting fame and a sale in the English language alone some five million copies. The book is illustrated with many of Ransome's own margin drawings.
Hugh Brogan is Professor of History at the University of Essex and the author of 'The Life of Arthur Ransome' and 'Kennedy'.
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