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asplendidtime
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Posted: April 16 2007 at 8:13am \| IP Logged

I am wondering thoughts you might have on Henty's novels? I have the complete set on cd.

I hate reading off of the computer, I love the smell and feel of a real book with pages... Kind of a more delicious experience in my opinion.

But the price was right... Are they worth reading? Is there anything in them contrary to the faith? If they are terrible, I really don't have to worry about having spent a little money on a coaster.

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Posted: April 16 2007 at 9:06am \| IP Logged

My sons love them -- at a bit older age than yours are -- about 12 or 13 usually. There is some anti-Catholicism in some of the books.   One often mentioned is St Bartholomew Eve.   I believe it is standard British off-hand prejudice, not a particular agenda of his, since we have read The Orange and the Green (about divided Ireland) and he treats the Catholic sympathetically.

We usually avoid the ones that are set in Reformation Days or that are about the Spanish and British wars -- things like that.   The ancient and medieval ones and the modern and US ones -- these have seemed all right to us.

The hero is basically the same personality with a different name in each of the books. Sort of like old-fashioned, rather better written, Hardy Boys with a historical setting and a more heroic level of undertakings.   I think Henty's history is generally thought to be fairly accurate.

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Posted: April 17 2007 at 12:12am \| IP Logged

My dd13 loves them also. As Willa says some are written from a Protestant prospective. They are very meaty history reads, Dd's favourite is 'In Freedom's Cause' set in Bruce's Scotland. They come up on ebay from time to time.

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