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Arthur Ransome Quotes
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
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| Birth: | 18th January, 1884 |
| Death: | 3rd June, 1967 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Journalist |
About
Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; fishing and camping are other common subjects. The books remain popular and "Swallows and Amazons" is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. He attended Yorkshire College, his father's college, studying chemistry. After a year, he abandoned the college and went to London to become a writer. In his first important book, Bohemia in London, Ransome introduced the history of London's Bohemian literary and artistic communities and some of its current representatives.
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