G. A. Henty

Rujub, the Juggler (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ralph Bathurst, the hero of the story has fallen in love with a girl captured by a wicked Rajah in India. The story starts with a Juggler, Rujub. We find out what the juggler does and how his life intertwines with the life of the 'hero', a man who is too nervous to fire a gun. Set in an eng community struggling to escape death during the Indian Mutiny, this is an intriguing tale of love and adventure. When a girl comes to India to live with her uncle, she is given several choices which provides a romantic twist to the story..

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 455
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783944389837
• Artikelnr.: 42400972

Autorenporträt

English author and war correspondent George Alfred Henty lived from 8 December 1832 to 16 November 1902. He is most well-known for his historical fiction and adventure books, including The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883), and In Freedom's Cause (1883). (1885). He was a British journalist who served as G. A. Henty's war correspondent. He was raised in Cambridge and finished his education there at Gonville and Caius College. He continued to cover important wars that followed, such as the Italian and Austro-Italian Wars. He wrote 122 books, most of which were geared toward young readers. He also wrote non-fiction, adult fiction, and short tales. In Henty's stories, the main character is a boy or young man who is going through a challenging situation. His characters are consistently low-key, astute, courageous, truthful, and resourceful with a lot of "pluck." The date was put at the bottom of the title page of each of Henty's 122 historical fiction works in their first printings.