Word: farnol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prowess at arms and the game beloved of a certain Marquis of Queensbury betakes himself forth upon his highway. And many adventures curious and great test the stick and the dog and the prowess. For there are always evils to meet on any highway, especially a Jeffrey Farnol highway. Yet Jeremy has the light of dauntlessness in his eyes-and he loves a lady-two inimitable means of success in novels-or even in life. So it is a victorious Jeremy who faces the reader as the book ends, an impossibly epic Jeremy-and a delightfully epic...
...classic slumber he has really wandered a rather inferior road. "The High Adventure", after all, is not quite so lofty as its name might suggest. For the most half romanticist feels the need of certain tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world of Jeremy it is obvious that she is his forever. Mystery does...
...high adventure, you and I; battle, murder and sudden death, Bill; blood, fire and stricken field are all one to us. Show me your teeth?excellent! Look at these fists?sufficient, I venture to think. . . . Come!" Thus Jeremy Veryan to his dog as he sets out across Mr. Farnol's newest pages to escape a crabbed guardian, find his father's murderer and woo a real storybook heroine in that most romantic of epochs, the day of The Broad Highway. Nothing further is necessary to introduce this book to the thousands and thousands that will read...
John Jeffery Farnol used to sit scrouged up in his nightshirt outside the parlor door while his father read stories to his mother. This was in Kent in the '80s. At school he used to tell stories to his mates that would last weeks, months, terms. There was no money to send him to college and his father tried to cure the boy's fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains...
...After we get into the story we find our highwaymen. Gentleman Jo has shot the stage coach guard in the belly. It was certainly in the belly because there are five references to Gentleman Jo's custom of shooting only at the belly. Gentleman Jo, is not the Jeffrey Farnol or the Alfred Noyes sort of highwayman, as the bar maid had hoped, because but read the story for yourself. I might spoil it for you, hard Dixon should be read twice...