Bullrush
Bullrush

Author: David Slack

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1775491153

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A fun, fact-filled history and tribute to that most iconic of Kiwi childhood games, Bullrush, from its origins and its various bannings to its modern revival in the post-PC playground. Bullrush was the best game anyone ever thought of. You didn't need a ref, you didn't need a whistle, you didn't need a ball. All you needed was a decent stretch of grass. It was a stampede of bare feet, it was grazed knees and torn shirts, it was a game that never took itself too seriously. Arriving on the first immigrant ships from Britain, the game took hold quickly in the new colony. Simple, sometimes brutal, always thrilling, it was a childhood rite of passage, no adults involved, handed down from generation to playground generation. Kiwi kids couldn't get enough of it. And then one day they banned it, the fools. Or did they? Featuring the memories of a wide range of people, from All Blacks to actors, David Slack pays tribute to one of the great unofficial institutions of New Zealand culture.

"Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England

Author: Robert Smith Surtees

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13:

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Ask Mamma: Or the Richest Commoner in England is a novel by Robert Smith Surtees. It depicts the amorous ventures and distresses of two generations of the Pringle family.

Delphi Complete Works of R. S. Surtees (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Works of R. S. Surtees (Illustrated)

Author: R. S. Surtees

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2018-07-06

Total Pages: 3924

ISBN-13: 1786561174

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The English comic novelist R. S. Surtees wrote sporting and satirical masterpieces, shining a light on the foibles and obsessions of early Victorian England. He created Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic characters of English literature, a Cockney grocer obsessed with fox hunting, whose various misadventures would go on to influence Dickens’ ‘The Pickwick Papers’. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Surtees’ complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Surtees’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 8 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Plain or Ringlets’ and ‘Hillingdon Hall’ * The unfinished novel ‘Young Tom Hall’s Heart-aches and Horses’ — first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original Victorian texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with John Leech’s stunning colour illustrations for the original monthly parts * Surtees’ rare non-fiction, including the seminal ‘The Horseman's Manual’ – available in no other collection * A bonus biography * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Handley Cross Hillingdon Hall Hawbuck Grange Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour Ask Mamma Plain or Ringlets Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds Young Tom Hall’s Heart-aches and Horses The Shorter Fiction Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities Mr. Jorrocks The Non-Fiction The Horseman’s Manual Hints to Railway Travellers Nimrod Fox-Hunting Fox-Hunting in Past and Present Times Thoughts on Fortune-Hunting The Biography Brief Biography: R. S. Surtees by Thomas Seccombe Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks