Edith Pargeter: Ellis Peters - Couverture rigide

Lewis, Margaret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1854111280 ISBN 13 : 9781854111289

Editeur : Seren, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Peters Ellis Lewis Margaret

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

llis Peters is famous throughout the world as the author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, featuring her monastic medieval sleuth. Televised, adapted for radio, transformed in to talking books, the Cadfael novels have played a major role in turning crime writing into a literary genre. But there is more to Peters than her twenty Cadfael novels. As Ellis Peter she has also produced a series of fourteen Inspector Felse novels, while under her real name of Edith Pargeter she has written a further thrity-six novels. These include two outstanding historical sequences, The Brothers of Gwynedd quartet, and The Heaven Tree trilogy, and The Eighth Champion of Christendom, a trilogy of novels about the Second World War written during and just after the conflict. Add three collections of stories, three works of non-fiction and sixteen translations of Czech literature and Pargeter s canon of high quality writing is finally completed. In this book, the first on Edith Pargeter, Margaret Lewis proves an admirable and incisive guide to the two faces of this prolific and award-winning popular author, exploring bother her life and her work.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Margaret Lewis was born in Northern Ireland and educated at the Universities of Alberta, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a writer and a contributor to public relations at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to her short stories broadcast on the radio and published in anthologies, she is the author of the biography Ngaio Marsh: A Life (Chatto, 1991).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1854111280
• ISBN 13: 9781854111289
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 154