Arthur Calder-Marshall (1908–1992)
Autor de The Fair to Middling
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: George Simmer's Research Blog
Obras de Arthur Calder-Marshall
The enthusiast : an enquiry into the life, beliefs and character of the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne, alias Fr. Ignatius, (1962) 11 copias
Lewd, Blasphemous & Obscene: Being the trials and tribulations of sundry founding fathers of today's alternative… (1972) 6 copias
Obras relacionadas
The rights of man and other writings; (Books that have changed man's thinking) (1970) — Introducción — 17 copias
The Bodley Head Jack London Volume 1: Short Stories, The Call of the Wild (1963) — Editor — 8 copias
The Bodley Head Jack London. Volume Two [John Barleycorn / The Cruise of the Dazzler / The Road] (1964) — Editor — 4 copias
The Bodley Head Jack London. Volume Four [The Klondike Dream] — Editor — 4 copias
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Drummond, William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1908-08-19
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1992-04-17
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wallington, Surrey, England
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Ashford, Kent, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Steyning, Sussex, England, UK
Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK - Educación
- St Paul's School, London, UK
Hertford College, Oxford - Ocupaciones
- author
- Organizaciones
- Communist Party of Great Britain
Writers and Readers Group
Oxford University Poetry Society
British Petroleum
Ministry of Information
Miembros
Debates
Portal/colour-blind girl recovers/green jewel/accused of faking en Name that Book (julio 2012)
Reseñas
Listas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 28
- También por
- 14
- Miembros
- 211
- Popularidad
- #105,256
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 21
- Idiomas
- 1
The story is about some children and staff from a school/home for orphans with disabilities. They are each changed in some way by their visit to the fair. The book is a mishmash of good and evil, humour and horror, religion and science, morality, miracles, friendship, healing, and, most prominently, acceptance. It is so full of wordplay that I was constantly looking for hidden meanings. I know that I missed a lot.
Something that intrigued me was a deadly game of cricket that was going on in the background. One of the players was (for quite obvious reasons) called Mr. De Ath. I had to wonder whether this was also a subtle nod to Dorothy L. Sayers, as it made me think of a scene in Murder Must Advertise. This suspicion was reinforced by a passing mention of Lord Peter Wimsey later in the book.… (más)