Christmas with the Savages
by Mary Clive
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Savage by name, Savage by nature . . . Prim and proper Evelyn would far rather talk to grown-ups than play with other children, so she's somewhat dismayed at the prospect of spending Christmas with the Savages - the unruly grandchildren of her mother's old acquaintance, Lady Tamerlane. Evelyn is soon swept along with the rumbustious Savages and their outrageous games, and even begins to enjoy herself, that is until she's unjustly accused of ruining Lionel's play . . .Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1955
- People/Characters
- Evelyn, Lady Tamerlane; Lord Tamerlane; the Glen children; the Howliboo children; the Savage children; the grown-up Aunts and Uncles (show all 11); Marguerite; Mrs Peabody; Mr O'Sullivan; Mrs O'Sullivan; the nana's and nursery maids
- Important places
- London, England, UK; Tamerlane Hall, England, UK (the grounds, the grotto)
- Dedication
- To my daughter Alice
- First words
- When I was a little girl I lived in a tall London house which you would have thought rather grand and very dull.
- Quotations
- "I have a delightful bedroom," I said. "It has pictures of deer." "Stags, you mean," said Lional. "That's the stink room. She's got the stink room, the stink room, the stink room."
Lional seemsed very difficult to talk t... (show all)o and not as grown-up as he looked, but I tried again. "Have all the rooms got names?" "Rather. There's the Pigsty, the Dungeon, Blue Ruin, Hades and the Un-breathy-air Hole." "They're not very pretty names." "Who wants pretty names? Heave over the jam." - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Round his neck was a label, 'Exchange is no robbery' and with him was a sugar nest with sugar eggs in it.
- Blurbers
- Fraser, Antonia; Nicolson, Harold; Laski, Marghanita
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .C623 .C — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 2
