Name: Rebel Pride
Price: 123.44 RON
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Author: Andre Norton
ISBN: 9781515402459

Rebel Pride

Andre Norton

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2024

Andre Norton is best known for her science fiction and fantasy novels. However, she was a woman of many interests and in her Rebel series her considerable writing skills are on full display as she brings the story of Drew Rennie to life. In the first book of this duology Ride Proud, Rebel Drew is a fifteen year old boy who joins the confederate army to defend his home and ideals. He fights this losing battle with honor and courage and is, in part, a symbol of the entire Confederacy. In the second book Rebel Spurs the Confederacy has been defeated. During the war, Drew who grew up an orphan, discovers that his father might still be alive. To find his father he sets off on an adventure that is even more dangerous than anything he faced in the Civil War.

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Andre Norton (1912-2005), born Alice Mary Norton, was an American science-fiction and fantasy novelist and pioneering woman in the field. She wrote The Stars Are Ours!, Star Born, The Time Traders, and the Witch World series.The conditions of the writer's period are important to an understanding of the work. Questions about the individual and society, including the roles of education, work, belief, and public institutions, repeatedly enter the literature and intellectual debates of the era. The historical setting should not be confused with a modern retelling: the language and assumptions of these works belong to their original moment.Norton was born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, and legally adopted the name Andre Alice Norton early in her writing career. She worked for many years in libraries and drew upon wide reading in history, archaeology, and myth. Her first published novel, The Prince Commands, appeared in 1934; she later turned increasingly toward science fiction and fantasy. The Stars Are Ours!, Star Born, and The Time Traders illustrate her interest in unfamiliar environments and protagonists who survive through ingenuity. Plague Ship belongs to her Solar Queen sequence of space-trading adventures, where commercial travel leads to unexpected dangers. She also created the expansive Witch World setting, beginning with the 1963 novel of that name. Norton was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1984 and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Her fiction was especially important in bringing speculative adventure to younger readers.In Plague Ship, the writer turns to science-fiction space adventure to develop a particular subject. A Solar Queen adventure originally published under Norton's Andrew North pseudonym. Its achievement is best understood in connection with the author's established body of writing and the literary conventions through which the subject is presented.Readers approaching this work today can appreciate its historical frame alongside its literary ambitions. Its treatment of character, perspective, society, or argument offers insight into the concerns that shaped its original audience. Where names, dates, or the original author's identity are uncertain, those details should be resolved through the edition and bibliographical record rather than supplied by conjecture.