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Overview of THREE FEVERS
Set in a Yorkshire coastal fishing village in the late-1920s, this is a tale of adventures and rivalries between the long-established Fosdycks and the newcomers, the Lunns. Here are laid bare the lives of the fishermen of Bramblewick (Robin Hood's Bay), who tackle the stormy seas with no thought of bravery; whose work is determined by the ebb and flow of the tide, and whose days are an unending conflict with the elements.
This is the book upon which J. Arthur Rank based his first film, Turn of the Tide, in 1935.
This is a newly-edited version prepared in 2013 from the book's 1932 First Edition.
The story
"... I had still to become really acquainted with those peculiar and highly infectious fevers, which, as one season declines, spread among the fishermen of the coast, firing them with a wild enthusiasm for the next."
Quotes
"I feel a sense of surprise each time he brings a book out. It shouldn't be possible to write great books like that..."
T E Lawrence
"Three Fevers is a first novel done with extraordinary assurance. Everything is made plain, made real, and is grandly alive,"
J B Priestley
"The storm which closes the book is a magnificent piece of writing ... Conrad himself would have appreciated the colour and intensity ... I n the matter of economy he might have even learnt from Mr Walmsley."
H E Bates
Genre: Thriller
Set in a Yorkshire coastal fishing village in the late-1920s, this is a tale of adventures and rivalries between the long-established Fosdycks and the newcomers, the Lunns. Here are laid bare the lives of the fishermen of Bramblewick (Robin Hood's Bay), who tackle the stormy seas with no thought of bravery; whose work is determined by the ebb and flow of the tide, and whose days are an unending conflict with the elements.
This is the book upon which J. Arthur Rank based his first film, Turn of the Tide, in 1935.
This is a newly-edited version prepared in 2013 from the book's 1932 First Edition.
The story
"... I had still to become really acquainted with those peculiar and highly infectious fevers, which, as one season declines, spread among the fishermen of the coast, firing them with a wild enthusiasm for the next."
Quotes
"I feel a sense of surprise each time he brings a book out. It shouldn't be possible to write great books like that..."
T E Lawrence
"Three Fevers is a first novel done with extraordinary assurance. Everything is made plain, made real, and is grandly alive,"
J B Priestley
"The storm which closes the book is a magnificent piece of writing ... Conrad himself would have appreciated the colour and intensity ... I n the matter of economy he might have even learnt from Mr Walmsley."
H E Bates
Genre: Thriller
Praise for this book
"The storm which closes the book is a magnificent piece of writing ... Conrad himself would have appreciated the colour and intensity ... In the matter of economy he might have even learnt from Mr Walmsley." - H E Bates
"Three Fevers is a first novel done with extraordinary assurance. Everything is made plain, made real, and is grandly alive." - J B Priestley
"Three Fevers is a first novel done with extraordinary assurance. Everything is made plain, made real, and is grandly alive." - J B Priestley
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