Arthur Stringer (–1950)
Autor de The Prairie Mother
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Arthur Stringer
Series
Obras de Arthur Stringer
The Woman Who Couldn't Die 4 copias
The story without a name 3 copias
White hands 2 copias
Night hawk; a novel 2 copias
The devastator, a novel 2 copias
The Hand of Peril 2 copias
The wolf woman 2 copias
Manhandled 2 copias
Marriage by capture 2 copias
The dark wing 2 copias
The diamond thieves 2 copias
Everybody's magazine 2 copias
Irish Poems 1 copia
Intruders in Eden, a novel 1 copia
Star in a mist, a novel 1 copia
The prairie omnibus containing two complete novels : the prairie wife and the prairie mother (1920) 1 copia
Prairie Stories Containing V2: The Prairie Wife; The Prairie Mother; The Prairie Child (1922) (2008) 1 copia
In the Wireless Room 1 copia
The wine of life 1 copia
Man lost 1 copia
Dark soil 1 copia
The mud lark 1 copia
In bad with Sinbad 1 copia
Power 1 copia
The stranger 1 copia
The under groove, a novel 1 copia
Shadowed victory 1 copia
Phantom Wires A Novel 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Stringer, Arthur
- Nombre legal
- Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1874 -02-26
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1950-09-13
- Lugar de sepultura
- New Jersey, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Chatham, Ontario, Canada
- Ocupaciones
- screenwriter
- Relaciones
- Howland, Jobyna (wife)
- Biografía breve
- Stringer was a writer on many films including "The Perils Of Pauline" (1914), "The Hand Of Peril" (1916), "The House Of Intrigue" (1919), "Unseeing Eyes" (1923), "Empty Hands" (1924), "The Canadian" (1926), "The Purchase Price" (1932), "The Lady Fights Back" (1937), "Buck Benny Rides Again" (1940), and "The Iron Claw" (1941).
Miembros
Debates
Book about the Black Death en Name that Book (Febrero 2012)
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 56
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 152
- Popularidad
- #137,198
- Valoración
- 2.9
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 55
With its square jawed hero inventor trying to keep his invention from the dastardly villain and his international group of badguys. The only bit of interest is the rather dark implications regarding a couple of the female characters but it never goes too dark.
The action is ok i guess in that pulpy dime-novel way but the never ending narrator and dull writing make everything seem pretty wooden.
This was made into a silent film by Paramount which has luckily been lost to the merciful mists of time. I’m really not surprised it was a film, it feels like it was only written to be sold as a forgettable matinee or serial.
There was a competition run at some point to come up with a proper name for it and the winning entry was “Without Warning”, which is at least a bit better than the actual title even if it is as meaningless.
On another day i could dismiss this with 2-stars but on the other hand; whether your stranded on a desert island, in prison or hiding in the ruins of a dystopian future from the super-intelligent Magpies which have taken control of the earth.. wherever you are, i’m certain you could find something more interesting to read than this.… (más)