DescriptionThis volume of memoirs describes some of the earliest adventures of Jack London's exceptional life. At just 16, he joined the force of the San Francisco Bay Fish Patrol, a kind of police for oyster pirates and outlaw fisherman at the dawn of the 20th century. This formative experience introduced him to a world of colorful and ruthless characters and a life of brawny heroism, peril, and humor. Now readers can rediscover this little known chapter of London's and San Francisco's history, chronicled with theatrical flair by one of our greatest storytellers.
DescriptionMartin Jarvis performs two full-length William stories, "The Lost Tourist" and "The Leopard Hunter", recorded live on stage at the Cheltenham Festival in 2003. Described by the Daily Telegraph as "the wizard of the talking book", Martin Jarvis has made the voices of William and his gang of outlaws his own.
DescriptionWritten in 1948 and made into a popular film the same year, Just William's Luck is the only novel Richmal Crompton wrote featuring her famous hero. The action takes place throughout one extraordinary day in William's life. It begins harmlessly enough in the old barn and soon develops into a riotous comedy-thriller as the invincible schoolboy hatches a plot to marry off the elder brothers of The Outlaws. All Crompton's celebrated characters are here: Ginger, Couglas, and Henry, the long-suffering Brown family, oily Hubert Lane, and 6-year-old control-freak Violet Elizabeth Bott. And leading the way, that timeless righter of wrongs, the incomparable William Brown himself.
DescriptionMattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie, as vital as she is innocent, outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.
