A Bundle of Nerves by Joan Aiken

A Bundle of Nerves by Joan Aiken

Contains stories that range from the weird and fantastic to the ghostly and sharply macabre. This anthology includes "Cricket", "The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick", "Do you Dig Grieg?" and "Belle of the Ball".

Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004) was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken. Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain. In 1999 Joan Aiken was awarded an MBE for her services to children's books.

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ISBN 13	9780140373301
ISBN 10	0140373306
Titel	A Bundle of Nerves
Autor	Joan Aiken
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Erscheinungsjahr	1997-03-27
Seitenanzahl	240
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.