Frederick Marryat

It was in the month of November in this year that King Charles, accompanied by Sir John Berkely, Ashburnham, and Legg, made his escape from Hampton Court, and rode as fast as the horses could carry them toward that part of Hampshire which led to the New Forest It is 1647. Charles I has been defeated in the civil war, but has escaped captivity and is making for France. Parliamentary soldiers searching the New Forest decide to burn the house of Colonel Beverly, a royalist officer killed at the Battle of Naseby. His four children are rescued by their fathers gamekeeper, Jacob, who takes them in. The children gradually shed their aristocratic sensibilities and adapt to the simple ways of the forest, working Jacobs farmstead and befriending other inhabitants of the woodland. But when Charles II raises an army and the spectre of war returns to haunt the Beverly children, they realise they cannot hide from their true identity. This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication.

Illustrator: D. Downing; Etching by W. Wright-Nooth

Illustrators: Edmund Evans and Johan Coenraad Braakensiek / Translator: Willem Degenhardt

It tells the story of Thomas Saunders, a sailors son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century. ("Poor Jack" was the title given by the waterfront boys, or mudlarks, to their chief.) In a rags-to-riches story Saunders eventually rises by his own efforts to become a pilot on the Thames, makes his fortune and retires to the life of a wealthy squire.

PERSONATGE —protagonista o no— sempre important dins les obres de Sir Walter Scott, de Vigny, Baudelaire, London, Hesse, entre altres, l'home-llop té pocs rivals, pel que faentre els monstres de la l

Illustrator: Edmund J. Sullivan

Esta clásica novela de aventuras desarrolla el mito del Holandés Errante. En ella se suceden episodios con piratas, naufragios, combates en tierras desconocidas... aunando de modo magistral las aventuras con la descripcion del mundo en el s. XVII.