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The Complete Bostock and Harris

The Complete Bostock and Harris

by Leon Garfield

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A New York Review Children’s Collection Original

The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends.

In “The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris,” the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harris’s infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys imagine a wolf will come to nourish her, but their plan backfires.

It is springtime in “The Night of the Comet,” and in the days before Pigott’s comet will pass over their town, Harris’s and Bostock’s thoughts turn to love: Bostock swoons over Harris’s sister Mary; Harris longs for Captain Bostock’s telescope. The boys strike a deal: Bostock will make off with the telescope in exchange for Harris’s “expert” wooing advice. Unfortunately, that expertise is not quite what Bostock would have hoped. by leon garfield

Additional Book Information

Series: NYRB Kids
ISBN: 9781590177839
Pages: 320
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Praise

It's a fine thing that Leon Garfield's rip-roaring and funny tales should be brought back into circulation for a new generation.
—Joan Aiken

As an extravagant admirer for more than twenty-five years, it is hard for me to believe that Leon Garfield needs any introduction .... He has given us books written clearly, vividly, truthfully and with great regard for language. But it is their outlaw quality that will both draw the young reader into the tale and, just possibly, impel him or her to new understandings of self, others, and the hypocrisy of the status quo.
—Katherine Paterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia, in The Horn Book Magazine

I am tempted to say that Garfield's stories are the tallest, the deepest, the wildest, the most spine-chilling, the most humorous, the most energetic, the most extravagant, the most searching, the most everything.>
—John Rowe Townsend, A Sense of Story: Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children

The Night of the Comet is the most felicitous collection of mishaps since the author's equally Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris.
—School Library Journal

Garfield nimbly choreographs all the cross-purpose encounters and unexpected entrances and exits, bringing the various on-again/off-again relationships to a generally happy conclusion at the climactic comet watch.
—Kirkus Reviews

Garfield's ability to plot these tangled events clearly into a rollicking farce while maintaining his lofty but superb style makes this one of the most amusing romps of the year.
—Booklist

A delicious literary concoction bubbling along with the author's perfect sense of dramatic timing and with his mixture of earthy humor and effervescent wit.
—The Horn Book Magazine

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