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The Hills of Varna

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place in children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: Historical fiction

    …highest energies is the exciting Hills of Varna (1948), a story of the Italian Renaissance in which Erasmus and the great printer Aldus Manutius figure prominently. Henry Treece, whose gifts were directed to depicting violent action and vigorous, barbaric characters, produced a memorable series of Viking novels of which Swords…

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