Genius Friend: G. B. Edwards and the Book of Ebenezer Le Page - Couverture souple

Chaney, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0992879108 ISBN 13 : 9780992879105

Editeur : Blue Ormer Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Since its publication in 1981, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by Gerald Basil Edwards has been recognised as the greatest work of literature by a native Guernseyman, and indeed one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Edward Chaney befriended its reclusive author, Gerald Edwards, encouraged him to finish the novel and had it published after he bequeathed him the manuscript. This two-part biography reconstructs Gerald's Guernsey origins and his status as the 'genius friend' of a group of writers who contributed to Middleton Murry's Adelphi in the 1920s. It then documents his descent into obscurity in the 1940s. The second part relates how Chaney met Edwards in Dorset in 1972 and how the novel eventually came to be published and was enthusiastically received. '... we always thought of him as 'our genius friend'.' J.S. Collis, The Spectator (31 July 1982)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edward Chaney is the Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts at Southampton Solent University, Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities and Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was an art student when he met Gerald Edwards but went on to do a PhD at the Warburg Institute in London and taught at Pisa University for six years. He has published numerous books, specialising in the history of collecting, the Grand Tour and 20th century British art. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and in 2003 was made a Commendatore of the Italian Republic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blue Ormer Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0992879108
• ISBN 13: 9780992879105
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible