Denis Compton (1918–1997)
Autore di End of an Innings
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Denis Compton (1951)
Opere di Denis Compton
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Compton, Denis Charles Scott
- Data di nascita
- 1918-05-23
- Data di morte
- 1997-04-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- cricket player
football player
broadcaster
journalist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the British Empire (Commander)
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End of an Innings di Denis Compton
Denis Compton's autobiography, read around the time of the centenary of his birth, was written at the tome of his retirement from the game in 1957. Interesting read
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The chief interest for contemporary readers would have been Compton's first-hand account of play in England's unsuccessful ashes tour of 1946–7. The book retains interest today for its historical perspective on the first Australian tour after the Second World War. For example, England's players were still living on rations, and Compton maintains that one of the reasons for Australia's success was their greater nutrition. Compton was not a professional writer, so lapses in his style are forgivable, but journalese and superabundance of phrases in inverted commas spoil the admirable content.… (altro)
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