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DIED. Frank Swinnerton, 98, novelist, belletrist and chronicler of English literary life for 70 years; in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. Born outside Victorian London, Swinnerton turned out 62 uneven but cheerfully unpretentious books. His intricately plotted, somewhat Victorian novels included Nocturne (1917) and Death of a Highbrow (1961), a book that he and his critics regarded as his best. The agreeable Swinnerton had a gift for making extraordinary friends (among them H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, G.B. Shaw and Aldous Huxley), whose lives he recounted in several spirited but gentlemanly memoirs...
...laconically explain how the 19th century English scientist contributed to Einstein's General Field Theory. For the average nonreader, however, the safest summer investment might well be one of the numerous British novelists who produce short, superbly written books on subjects of total inconsequence: Octogenarian Frank Swinnerton, for example, who learned to write when Proust was an apprentice, and has turned out more than 30 novels of manners and malice (his latest: Quadrille) with a fine disregard for every development in fiction over the past 60 years...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. A veteran novelist, now too little appreciated, probes the rivalry of two men of letters...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. England's foremost man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rival and decides the man was not so much his enemy as his friend...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. The fierce rivalry of two old men of letters ends in death for one, a bitter awakening for the other...