Enid Blyton Famous Five

The work of British writer Enid Blyton (1897-1968) is one of the great literary achievements of the 20th century. She writes mainly for children and has produced an average of 2 pounds per month for four decades.

His writings have been translated worldwide. Regardless of your cultural background, chances are that you have read one of his famous five stories, which tell the adventures of four children and a dog.

Despite the fact that some commentators do not appreciate literary work Blyton's immense popularity leaves little room for debate. His readers, children in dozens of countries, I love his books. Today, sales of his work continue to reach huge numbers, even if his stories play in a world without mobile phones and the Internet.

Most Blyton stories are set in a context of rigid social classes and traditions, where people have pudding for lunch and tea in the afternoon. Her own life has been relatively quiet, far from roads and modes of modern media celebrities.

The only unusual event, given the time that she has divorced her first husband she had married when she was 27 years. At 46, she entered a second marriage that proved to be very happy. She continued her literary output mass in the coming decades, played tennis and golf regularly, and died at age 71, shortly after her second husband.

What is remarkable life of Enid Blyton, of course, his unbending determination to produce volume after volume to a very high speed. All his books have been written at a time when word processors did not exist. The novel for the average adult has about 90,000 words, in comparison, children's books tend to be short, less than 40,000 words. Nevertheless, the ability to produce hundreds Blyton Manuscript finished in his life is truly extraordinary.

Although tradition and routine filled much of the life of Enid Blyton, children's books embody the virtues of independence and entrepreneurial spirit to an extent few writers have matched. In his stories, children explore the world of their own and the girls face the danger with incredible courage.

Blyton minor heroes make plans to achieve their goals, learn to deal effectively with adverse circumstances, overcoming difficulties, and finally triumph. Even if some of his plots are slow, most of its main characters demonstrate a relentless determination.

Young readers everywhere can feel some admiration for the traditional English society it represents, but this aspect is irrelevant to the success of his books. Blyton skills is to put the protagonists in the media forced wonderful. She is a master at depicting boys and girls entrepreneurship "on a colorless background.

In his stories Blyton use culture, not as a sum of expectations not disputed, but as the ultimate literary ploy. Tradition is the giant of being duped, the antique clock that ticks chance before, the spider web that fills a cave inhabited.

meaningless routines are not a world that children want to live, nor any discerning adult for that matter. Enid Blyton's message to every young player is that it should not base its decisions on doubtful traditions, he must think for himself and check everything twice, he must do what is right, which is not necessarily what people expect him to do.

Is it a surprise that his book continues to delight millions of boys and girls around the world? When a child reads a volume of the Famous Five, it hangs and will not stop until he takes possession of the entire series. Blyton's work is from the same fascination for young girls, who represent 50% of the protagonists of his novels.

The conclusion is unequivocal: the readers, especially children, love stories whose main characters in the set goal and resourcefulness, independence of one.