3 Books by Eric Linklater
Requirements: ePUB reader, 7.8 MB
Overview: Linklater was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children’s fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year’s best children’s book by a British subject.
Genre: Fiction < Children/Young Adults
The Wind on the Moon: In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves while he is off at war. Sighs Dinah, "I think that we are quite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be," and her sister Dorinda adds helpfully, "Very often, when we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s difficult to tell which is which." Sure enough, the mischievous sisters soon convince a judge that minds must be changed as often as socks, stage an escape from the local zoo (thanks to a witch’s potion which turns them into kangaroos), and—in the company of a golden puma and silver falcon—set off to rescue their father from the tyrant of Bombardy.
The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and longitudes together to keep the world from splitting.
The Goose Girl and Other Stories: This selection covers Linklater’s entire writing life. The settings are as various as the places where he lived – Orkney, India, California, Edinburgh and the Highlands – the events that take place, both fantastic and sensual in their depiction. The short stories include classics of the form, such as Kind Kitty, and wild variations on fairy stories, medieval myths, bawdy folktales, Viking sagas and 1920s crime reports. They derive from the magic of the world – love, beauty, ambition, drink and language.
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