L. A. G. Strong (1896–1958)
Autore di The sacred river; an approach to James Joyce
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Opere di L. A. G. Strong
The Rolling Road 4 copie
Light through the cloud 4 copie
The last enemy; a study of youth 3 copie
Authorship (Ross Careers Books) 2 copie
The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons 2 copie
Selected Poems 2 copie
Corporal Tune 2 copie
English Novelists Today 2 copie
The Open Sky 2 copie
The Hill of Howth 2 copie
Herberg de Postkoets 1 copia
Call to the Swan 1 copia
Difficult love 1 copia
A brewer's progress, 1757-1957: a survey of Charrington's Brewery on the occasion of its bicentenary (1957) 1 copia
The Imposition 1 copia
The nice cup o' tea 1 copia
Sous le sceau du secret 1 copia
Sea Wall 1 copia
The Director 1 copia
At Glenan Cross : a sequence 1 copia
The Lowery road 1 copia
Northern light 1 copia
Seven verses, Christmas, 1925 1 copia
Twice Four, Christmas, 1921 1 copia
The White Cottage 1 copia
Dr Quicksilver 1660-1742: The Life and Times of Thomas Dover, MD (The Rogues Gallery Number Three) (1955) 1 copia
The Best Poems of 1924. 1 copia
Opere correlate
Breakdown and Other Thrillers — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The Fourth Mystery Bedside Book — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Missing From Their Homes — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Strong, Leonard Alfred George
- Data di nascita
- 1896
- Data di morte
- 1958-08-17
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Surrey, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Brighton College
Oxford University (Wadham College) - Attività lavorative
- novelist
critic
historian
poet - Relazioni
- Yeats, W. B. (friend)
Redlich, Monica (his private secretary) - Organizzazioni
- Methuen Ltd.
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King Richard's Land di L. A. G. Strong
At 70-odd years old I still love these old turn-of-the-century boys' adventure stories. I had not read anything by Mr. Strong until now but he is up there with Ballantyne, Kingston, Strand, Farnol and Henty. This story, as the title implies, relates possible events in the time of good King Richard and it makes reference to such historical personages as John Ball and Wat Tyler.
Most of this is literary essays on 19th-early 20th century British literature, but I got it for avery interesting essay on psychic research --Strong says he has had peronal experience that cnvinces him of ghosts but it is not good enough to convince otheers; also, he feels much of what spiritualists claim as evidence for ghosts culd be explained by telepathy. Comes across as very honest and having had interesting personal experiences in that line.
The last book Strong wrote about the composer-policeman Ellis McKay is a bit of a mixed bag. The setting is an arts conference centre where McKay is called in at short notice to lecture on modern music, and meets a number of strange characters including several foreign psychologists, a rather lumpish young debutante and an extremely annoying ex-army type who may not be all he seems, together with the warden, a sort of cut-price Bertie Wooster (oddly, we never learn his name). A showing of a surrealist film leads to the discovery of an ostrich egg in a nearby hen-run, which is the turning point of the plot. The denouement is not predictable, but I found it a slight let-down.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 70
- Opere correlate
- 30
- Utenti
- 244
- Popolarità
- #93,239
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 26
- Lingue
- 1