Journal created:
on 7 September 2007 (#13769187)
Updated:
on 9 April 2017
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
Description:
Victorian and early 20th century literature for boys
Welcome to Ripping Yarns, the community for classic boys' literature from the early Victorian period to the 1960s. The dates are approximate, but the 'Interests' should give you an idea of the sort of thing you can expect to find here. Contemporary works with a 'retro' feel, such as the fiction of Joshua Mowll, the Dead Boy Detectives comic series, and the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, are welcome, too. Posts are not limited to literature (fiction and non-fiction) but may also deal with radio serials, early tv shows, films, and art.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I will let you know if a post is off-topic.
You may post meta, questions, links, observations, discussions on related subjects, art, stories, icons, scans, photographs and so forth.
Please put photos, scans, and embedded media behind a cut. The same goes for icon posts, although you may put a three icon teaser in front of the cut. You can post these items here or link to your own journal, but please -- no linking to locked posts and no disabling of comments on this community.
ripping_yarns is steampunk-friendly.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I will let you know if a post is off-topic.
You may post meta, questions, links, observations, discussions on related subjects, art, stories, icons, scans, photographs and so forth.
Please put photos, scans, and embedded media behind a cut. The same goes for icon posts, although you may put a three icon teaser in front of the cut. You can post these items here or link to your own journal, but please -- no linking to locked posts and no disabling of comments on this community.
ripping_yarns is steampunk-friendly. adventure stories, anthony buckeridge, arthur ransome, baden-powell, biggles, billy bunter, bomba of the jungle, book illustrations, boy's own paper, captain marryat, captain mayne reid, children's annuals, chums, colonialist literature for boys, comic strips, danny dunn, edgar rice burroughs, g.a. henty, h. rider haggard, hardy boys, how to books, jack armstrong, john carter, jules verne, kipling, oliver optic, pulp fiction, r. m. ballantyne, radio boys, retro-futurism, richard jefferies, richmal crompton, ripping yarns, rupert bear, school stories, sexton blake, steampunk, stratemeyer syndicate, tarzan, the beano, the dandy, the eagle, the mercer boys, the rover boys, tintin, tom brown's schooldays, tom corbett, tom quest, tom swift, w.e. johns, worrals