Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hugh Walpole hopes "you will not take this Tale too seriously." Writing it was a holiday for him, reading it should be only a relaxation for you. In short, it is a murder story. And of course it has a happy ending...
...Author. Hugh Seymour Walpole, pleasantly unprofound novelist, is the son of an English bishop and feels that Life is earnest. Even in such a holiday tale as this he dutifully wrinkles his forehead, doubtfully wonders about such dark questions as the borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English...
...northwest wind, was moving steadily seaward. The father's reasoning was that his son would eventually be swept ashore where he could survive by his own resources. The very fact that others near young Frissell at the time of the explosion had lived to tell the tale was something for the father to cleave to. He went on hoping...
Died, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought...
...tale of a Mongol fur hunter, who after being cheated by a wealthy trader, turns rebel, becomes the leader of the revolutionary forces, and is finally captured and shot. In his posession is an ancient silken document stating that he is the direct descendent of Ghengis Khan. He is rescued by the men who shot him, brought back to health, and dressed up as a prince in order that his people will ally themselves with their former enemies. In the end, one of his people is shot at his feet, he runs amok, and is shown at the close, sweeping...