Forrest Reid

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

• Jul-2009
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

• Aug-2011
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• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in Newcastle, County D...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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Excerpt from The Spring Song

'So fair a summer look for never more.' - Thomas Nashe.

Leaning back against the leather cushion of the railway-carriage, Griffith Weston was conscious of an endless panorama of fields and meadows, of green ...

• Jun-2013
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'A masterpiece.' - E. M. Forster ' A] strange, sinister, and unforgettable story.' - "Manchester Guardian" 'Forrest Reid has . . . beautiful, rhythmical prose, a true and permanent voice.' - John McGahern 'None of our contemporaries can describe c...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2014
• / Fantasy
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"An admirable novel... the author has drawn this charming unearthly boy with extraordinary sympathy and penetration." - "Manchester Guardian" "A work of rare distinction. . . . more than brilliant; it is actual; it is true; it is an accurate reprodu...

• Nov-2014
• / Literary
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'An exquisite book.' - E. M. Forster 'No other novelist of today can recapture more clearly than Mr. Reid the sense of early wonder and adventurous childhood.' - "The Times" 'An altogether remarkable book.' - "Glasgow Herald" Left in the care of h...

• Jan-2015
• / General Fiction
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"He writes with such ease and simplicity, his stories, always unusual, are so exquisitely told, and when, as often happens, he takes you into regions not too far distant from fairyland, he has only to wave his wand to make you believe." - Ralph Strau...

• Mar-2015
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'One of the most original and most perfect works of imagination of our time' - Edwin Muir, The Listener

'A unique achievement in modern literature' - John Boyd

'It has a charm and freshness, it is beautifully written' - James Hanley...