Ellis Peters (1913–1995)
Autore di La bara d'argento
Sull'Autore
Ellis Peters is the pseudonym for Edith Pargeter, who was born in Horsehay, Shropshire. She was a chemist's assistant from 1933 to 1940 and participated during World War II in the Women's Royal Navy Service. The name "Ellis Peters" was adopted by Edith Pargeter to clearly mark a division between mostra altro her mystery stories and her other work. Her brother was Ellis and Petra was a friend from Czechoslovakia, thus the name. She came to writing mysteries, she says, "after half a lifetime of novel-writing." Her detective fiction features well-rounded, knowledgeable characters with whom the reader can empathize. Her most famous literary creation is the medieval monk Brother Cadfael. The blend of history and the formula of the detective story gives Peters's works their popular appeal. As detective hero, Brother Cadfael remains faithful to the requirements of the formula, yet the historical milieu in which he operates is both fully realized and well textured. Peters received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award in 1963 and the Crime Writers Association's Silver Dagger Award in 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Serie
Opere di Ellis Peters
The Heaven Tree Trilogy Omnibus: The Heaven Tree, the Green Branch, the Scarlet Seed (1960) 465 copie
The Brother Cadfael Mysteries: Monk's Hood / The Leper of St. Giles / The Sanctuary Sparrow / One Corpse Too Many (1979) 143 copie
The Dominic Felse Omnibus (The Piper on The Mountain, Mourning Raga, Death to the Landlords) (1991) 50 copie
Brother Cadfael Omnibus: Dead Man's Ransom | The Pilgrim of Hate | An Excellent Mystery (1999) 32 copie
The George Felse Omnibus: Fallen Into the Pit; Death and the Joyful Woman; A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1994) 28 copie
The Detective Omnibus (City of Gold and Shadows / Flight of a Witch / Funeral of Figaro) (1992) 28 copie
Brother Cadfael Omnibus: The Rose Rent | The Hermit of Eyton Forest | The Raven in the Foregate (2001) 24 copie
The Brother Cadfael Mysteries: A Morbid Taste for Bones / The Raven in the Foregate / The Rose Rent (1999) 23 copie
The Devil's Novice / The Disappearance of the Saturnalia Silver / Blind Justice / He Came with the Rain (2000) 6 copie
Brother Cadfael: Monk's Hook, the Leper of St. Giles, the Sanctuary Sparrow, One Corpse Too Many [enhanced audiotrack] (1999) 4 copie
By This Strange Fire 4 copie
Let Nothing You Dismay! 2 copie
Don Juan 1 copia
The Duchess and the Doll 1 copia
HORTENSIUS, FRIEND OF NERO. 1 copia
The Golden Girl [short story] 1 copia
Monk's Hood [abridged] 1 copia
Le cronache di fratello Cadfael - volume secondo: La fiera di san Pietro - Due delitti per un monaco - La vergine nel… (2020) 1 copia
One Corpse Too Many [abridged] 1 copia
Dekle v zrcalu 1 copia
Brother Cadfael novels / 1 copia
Forbudt for børn : 13 noveller 1 copia
Opere correlate
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling and Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1865) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Once Upon a Crime: Historical Mysteries From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Historical Whodunits — Prefazione — 3 copie
The Confession of Brother Haluin | Murder on Tour: A Rock'n'Roll Mystery | A Wicked Slice (1989) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Hermit of Eyton Forest | Poetic Justice | So Soon Done For — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 3-4 — Original books — 1 copia
Mystery and Suspense — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 1-2 — Original books — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Pargeter, Edith Mary
- Altri nomi
- Peters, Ellis
Redfern, John
Carr, Jolyon
Benedict, Peter - Data di nascita
- 1913-09-28
- Data di morte
- 1995-10-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- cremated, ashes scattered
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Horsehay, Shropshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Horsehay, Shropshire, England, UK
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK - Istruzione
- Dawley Church of England School
Coalbrookdale High School for Girls - Attività lavorative
- author
chemist's assistant
Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
historical novelist
translator - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Cartier Diamond Dagger 1993 [1993]
Edgar Allan Poe Award 1963 - Breve biografia
- Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913 in Horsehay, Shropshire, England –October 14, 1995) was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. Born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England), she had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books (both fictional and non-fictional) were set in Wales and its borderlands, and/or have Welsh protagonists.
During World War II, she worked in an administrative role in the Women's Royal Naval Service, and received the British Empire Medal - BEM.
Pargeter wrote under a number of pseudonyms; it was under the name Ellis Peters that she wrote the highly popular series of Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, many of which were made into films for television.
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Which house? (1)
Edgar Award (1)
1970s (1)
Female Author (1)
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Monastic life (1)
Women in War (1)
Garden-fiction (1)
Next in Series (1)
Favorite Series (1)
Edad Media (1)
Historical Fiction (21)
Detective Stories (12)
British Mystery (14)
al.vick-series (2)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 158
- Opere correlate
- 65
- Utenti
- 52,390
- Popolarità
- #291
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 962
- ISBN
- 1,730
- Lingue
- 23
- Preferito da
- 167
I libri di questa serie finora sono stati un fastello di contraddizioni: pieni di difetti ma scorrevoli, che non suscitano la minima curiosità ma lasciano comunque la voglia di proseguire. Insomma al dunque sono estremamente dimenticabili ma estremamente piacevoli.… (altro)