Ebook {Epub PDF} Simon by Rosemary Sutcliff

'Simon' is one of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels written for older children. She is famous for her 'The Eagle of the Ninth' best seller set in Roman Britain with several other books following the family line of the hero down the ages/5(17). Rosemary Sutcliff. · Rating details · 96 ratings · 11 reviews. It had never seemed of much importance during their boyhood that Simon Carey was for Parliament and his friend Amias Hannaford a Royalist. But when the Civi War between the two parties broke out, and two years later they were old enough to take part in it, they found themselves fighting for different sides/5. Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel and children’s book Simon – the subject of a comment by Anne in an earlier post – is a story about competing loyalties in the midst of a civil war. The Washington Post and Times Herald on April 4th, said.

Rosemary Sutcliffe is the wrong spelling of Rosemary Sutcliff all too frequently used, even by newspapers and publishers and booksellers who should know better. For more on the life, work, books, films of Rosemary Sutcliffe - properly spelled -. go to this blog about author of historical fiction Rosemary Sutcliff, with lists of all her books including The Eagle of the Ninth. England during Cromwell's revolution, and especially that part of Devon which saw the heat of it, backgrounds an adventure of loyalties and plots, highlights a character and vividly paints the issues with which he has to deal. A puritan farmer's son, Simon grew up in friendship with Amias Hanneford, a doctor's son and a royalist. Parted when war comes, Simon and Amias go to their own armies. Rosemary Sutcliff's children's classic The Eagle of the Ninth (still in print more than 50 years on) is the first of a series of novels in which Sutcliff, who died in , explored the cultural borderlands between the Roman and the British worlds - "a place where two worlds met without mingling" as she describes the British town to which Marcus, the novel's central character.

Simon is a novel for young adults published by Oxford University Press in , illustrated by Richard Kennedy. It was Rosemary Sutcliff's fifth book, and the first to deal with what would become her characteristic subject matter, military life and the close friendship between two young men. The story follows a young Parliamentarian soldier in Devon during the first English Civil War, which divides him from his best friend, a Royalist. Simon is a children's historical novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff, first published in It is set during the First English Civil War, primarily focusing on the final campaign of in the West Country and shows the effect of the conflict on two friends, who find themselves on opposite sides. "In this distinguished novel set during the first Civil War in England (), Rosemary sutcliff gives a compelling and unbiased account of the final campaign in the West Country, vividly describing the feelings of those involved in it.".