Hereward the Wake 'Last of the English'
by Charles Kingsley
Abridged and edited by W Barnes
ISBN: NO
Cover: Hardcover NO dustjacket
Pages: 317
Condition: Good, age spots to inside covers, name and address stamp to front page + minor writing, corners rounding, bumping to edges, discolouration to top page edges.
This edition published 1955
Shortened Classic: The aim of the 'shortened classics' series is to present the classics in a form suitable for children, but without alteration of the style and language of the author. The stories are abridged but not retold, and contain only the words of the author, except for brief passages (in italics) which serve ti link up the story where some of the original has been omitted. W. Barnes (Editor).
WEIGHT: 450g (parcel rate)
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman and novelist. He was the founding member of the Christian Socialist movement and was known for his controversy with Cardinal Newman. He was a chaplain to Queen Victoria, a rector at Eversley, Hampshire and was sympathetic to the Chartists. Found in this volume is Hereward the Wake, the hero of our youth, who reappears at last in a guise fitted for a modern drawing room. Thomas Wright first disinterred him, long ago, when scarcely a hand or foot of him was left standing out from beneath the dust of ages. Wright taught Kingsley how to furbish his rusty harness, botch his bursten saddle, and send him forth once more, upon the ghost of his gallant mare.*
*From Collins Booksellers website
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