It was shown in the United Kingdom by ITV. The story is based on the book by Leon Garfield. His fiction for the children's list, however, remains his chief achievement. Overview Jack Holborn was a 1982 ZDF Adventure TV mini-series. Leon Garfield, whose rollicking historical novels for young readers conjured up the London of Hogarth and Dickens, died last Sunday in a London hospital. In The Confidence Man, a rogue and charlatan leads a band of persecuted people to their promised land he is an unlikely saviour created by faith.įrom the 1980s onward, Garfield moved away from his previous range: he completed Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1980), wrote an adult novel of his own, The House of Cards (1982), compiled two volumes of retold Shakespeare plays, and scripted condensed cartoon versions of Shakespeare plays which were produced by a Russian animation studio. The Pleasure Garden is set in a seedy commercial Eden into which murder intrudes: a kind of Paradise Lost. The Pleasure Garden (1976), the cycle of stories called The Apprentices (1976-78) and The Confidence Man (1978) were concerned with religious issues and were much influenced by the Bible, which he declared to be a far richer source of inspiration than the Norse and Celtic mythologies then in vogue. He described his aim as a novelist as being 'to write that old- fashioned.

Later Garfield novels, from the mid-1970s onward, developed greater depth and increasingly became general rather than specifically 'children's' fiction, though still appearing on the children's lists. Jack Holborn kniha od: Leon Garfield 88 16 hodnocení Pidat do mých knih Koupit Koupit eknihu Tináctiletý chlapec Jack Holborn zaije úasná a neuvitelná dobrodruství mezi piráty, pi cest neznámou divoinou, na trhu otrok v africkém pístavu i v Londýn. Leon Garfield was one of the leading children's writers of his day, and a reteller and adapter of Shakespeare's plays.

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