My Life and Times : Octave Seven 1931 to 1938 [autobiography, Prolific Author, Writer Tells of His Own Adventures, Scottish Nationalist, Scotland Life, Heritage, etc]

Compton Mackenzie / Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie

Edité par Chatto and Windus London 1968 / T and A Constable Ltd, Pages are Clean and Unmarked

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Hardback : hard cover edition in good plus condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Some minor bumping or scuffs. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make an ideal gift for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. About the author: Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, 17 January 1883 to 30 November 1972 was a writer and a Scottish nationalist. Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, but many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname, starting with his grandfather Henry Compton, a well-known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. His father, Edward Compton, was an actor and theatre company manager; his sister, Fay Compton, starred in many of J. M. Barrie's plays, including Peter Pan. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in modern history. Sir Compton Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comedies set in Scotland, the Hebridean Whisky Galore (1947) and the Highland The Monarch of the Glen (1941), sources of a successful film and a television series respectively. He published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography, My Life and Times (1963-1971). He also wrote history (on Marathon and Salamis), biography (Roosevelt), literary criticism, satires, apologia (Sublime Tobacco 1957), children's stories, poetry, and so on. Of his fiction, The Four Winds Of Love is considered to be his magnum opus. It is described by Dr John MacInnes (formerly of the School of Scottish Studies) as one of the greatest works of English literature produced in the twentieth century. He was an influence on the young F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose first book, This Side of Paradise, was written while under his spell. Sinister Street, his lengthy 1913-14 bildungsroman, influenced the young and impressed established writers. Against the rules, George Orwell and Cyril Connolly read it as schoolboys. Max Beerbohm praised Mackenzie's writing for vividness and emotional reality[4] Frank Swinnerton, literary critic, comments on Mackenzie's detail and wealth of reference . John Betjeman said of it, 'This has always seemed to me one of the best novels of the best period in English novel writing.' Henry James thought it to be the most remarkable book written by a young author in his lifetime. Following his conversion to Catholicism in 1914, he explored religious themes in a trilogy of novels, The Altar Steps (1922), The Parson's Progress (1923), and The Heavenly Ladder (1924). Following his time on Capri, socialising with the gay exiles there, he treated the homosexuality of a politician sensitively in Thin Ice (1956). He was the literary critic for the London-based national newspaper Daily Mail. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you.

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• Titre: My Life and Times : Octave Seven 1931 to 1938 [autobiography, Prolific Author, Writer Tells of His Own Adventures, Scottish Nationalist, Scotland Life, Heritage, etc]
• Éditeur: Chatto and Windus London 1968 / T and A Constable Ltd, Pages are Clean and Unmarked
• Reliure: Hard Back / Cloth Binding
• Illustrateur: Illus with b/w Photos
• État de l'article: Good Clean Cond.
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket
• Type de livre: Book