The Rib of the Green Umbrella and Karensgaard
by Naomi Mitchison
During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younger readers, which are now brought together in five volumes within The Naomi Mitchison Library. This volume contains two books. Firstly, the straightforward tale of a family's Resistance in Italy during the Second World War, The Rib of the Green Umbrella (1960). Secondly, Karensgaard, from 1961, a story that traces a Danish family through several generations, into the Resistance in Denmark, and the subsequent years.
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Author Biography
Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon. Tireless in her writing, unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy. Her novels for adults and children stressed at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, as well her concerns for the future. She also travelled widely, wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, book reviews, political articles, and many letters.
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