The accidental highwayman :
Tripp, Ben, 1966-
The accidental highwayman : being the tale of Kit Bristol, his horse Midnight, a mysterious princess, and sundry magical persons besides / - First edition. - 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Editor's note -- Preface -- A proclamation at market -- The day's second interrogation -- Rattle rides out -- The imposter -- Escape to Kingsmire -- The wrong highwayman's task -- The owl at the crossroad -- Rescue, after a fashion -- A royal wedding foretold -- Long-suffering radishes and new clothes -- The price of a button -- A parting of ways -- Up another tree -- The unlucky luncheon -- The bridge -- Designs upon women's hearts -- The three questions -- The impresario's flight -- Saved by gilt -- The best concealment -- Play-practice -- The tortoise comb -- The fell reflection -- Lily's dream -- Puggle's spectacular -- A brief and happy idyll -- Toasting the steward -- The sigilantum -- The company soon to part -- The final performance -- Captivity -- Tidings from an old acquaintance -- Being an account of my last hours -- The royal wedding -- Midnight's flight -- The Irish Sea -- The enchanted land -- Word from abroad.
In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged a fairy he would rescue feisty Princess Morgana from an arranged marriage with King George III.
9780765335494 (hardback) 0765335492 (hardback)
2014033724
Robbers and outlaws--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Fairies--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Princesses--Fiction.
Fate and fatalism--Fiction.
Brigands and robbers--Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories.
Fairies--Juvenile fiction.
Magic--Juvenile fiction.
Princesses--Juvenile fiction.
Fate and fatalism--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
PZ7.1.T756 / Acc 2014
[Fic]
The accidental highwayman : being the tale of Kit Bristol, his horse Midnight, a mysterious princess, and sundry magical persons besides / - First edition. - 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Editor's note -- Preface -- A proclamation at market -- The day's second interrogation -- Rattle rides out -- The imposter -- Escape to Kingsmire -- The wrong highwayman's task -- The owl at the crossroad -- Rescue, after a fashion -- A royal wedding foretold -- Long-suffering radishes and new clothes -- The price of a button -- A parting of ways -- Up another tree -- The unlucky luncheon -- The bridge -- Designs upon women's hearts -- The three questions -- The impresario's flight -- Saved by gilt -- The best concealment -- Play-practice -- The tortoise comb -- The fell reflection -- Lily's dream -- Puggle's spectacular -- A brief and happy idyll -- Toasting the steward -- The sigilantum -- The company soon to part -- The final performance -- Captivity -- Tidings from an old acquaintance -- Being an account of my last hours -- The royal wedding -- Midnight's flight -- The Irish Sea -- The enchanted land -- Word from abroad.
In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged a fairy he would rescue feisty Princess Morgana from an arranged marriage with King George III.
9780765335494 (hardback) 0765335492 (hardback)
2014033724
Robbers and outlaws--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Fairies--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Princesses--Fiction.
Fate and fatalism--Fiction.
Brigands and robbers--Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories.
Fairies--Juvenile fiction.
Magic--Juvenile fiction.
Princesses--Juvenile fiction.
Fate and fatalism--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
PZ7.1.T756 / Acc 2014
[Fic]