The Lady Who Came to Stay & the Elixir of Life (Lovecraft's Library)
by R. E. Spencer, Arthur Ransome
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Children's author Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds, England on January 18, 1884. As a child, he spent many vacations sailing, camping, and exploring the countryside in England's Lake Country. He studied chemistry for one year at Yorkshire College before dropping out to become a writer. He worked for a London publisher and then for the Manchester show more Guardian newspaper. He wrote his first book, Bohemia in London, in 1907 and went to study folklore in Russia in 1913. In 1916, he published Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of 21 folktales. During World War I, he became a reporter for the Daily News and covered the war on the Eastern Front. While in Russia, he also covered the Russian Revolution in 1917. He eventually settled in England's Lake District with his second wife. In 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons, which was the first book in his well-know Swallows and Amazons series about children who sail and explore the lakes and mountains of England. He drew inspiration for the books from his own childhood memories. In 1936, he won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature for Pigeon Post. He died on June 3, 1967. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2009; 1915 (The elixir of life) (The elixir of life); 1931 (The lady who came to stay) (The lady who came to stay)
- People/Characters
- Baruch Spinoza (Benedictus de Spinoza, 1623 to 1677); George Berkeley; John Killigrew; Richard Stanborough; Michael; Rose Killigrew (show all 11); Anthony Stanborough; Theophrastus Paracelsus (ne Theophrastus von Hohenheim, 1493? to 1541); Jane Barber 'Babkins'; Valerius Philodoxius (of Paris); Egerton (peddlar)
- Important places
- Bigland, Yorkshire, England, UK; Killigrew Hall, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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- Dedication
- To My Mother
(The lady who came to stay).
To My Mother
(The elixir of life). - First words
- At all events, the house appeared big enough; so that if Katherine had wondered whether her sisters-in-law might not have to crowd themselves a little to accommodate her, she could be at ease henceforth on that point at least... (show all).
(The lady who came to stay).
I suppose when I was young I was a little more particular than I should like any son of mine to be in the matter of lace ruffles, silver buckles, swordstrings, and other of the trifles that seemed to me then the most importan... (show all)t items of a man's equipment.
(The elixir of life). - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The reunion of the sisters was now indeed complete.
(The lady who came to stay).
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And now I may write the word "Finis," and go out to them with the satisfaction of having earned my freedom, and sit with Rose in the arbour beyond the hollyhocks, and, when she leaves me at twilight to see the younger bairns to bed, to hesitate between Lucretius and Vergil, and not knowing whether to take the philosopher or the poet from my pocket, to sit there in the dusk reading neither, and listening to the owls calling in the low wood under the fell.
(The elixir of life). - Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- Spencer's 'The lady who came to stay' (1931) and Ransome's 'The elixir of life' (1915) are here printed back-to-back.... (show all) Please do not combine copies of the individual works with this compendium.
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