Книга: Raven, Simon «Alms For Oblivion Vol II»

Alms For Oblivion Vol II

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

Simon Raven`s sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven`s world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on. Volume 2: The Judas Boy, Places Where they Sing, Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows ISBN:9780099561330

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2014)

ISBN: 9780099561330

Raven, Simon

▪ English writer
in full  Simon Arthur Noël Raven 
born December 28, 1927, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
died May 12, 2001, London

      English novelist, playwright, and journalist, known particularly for his satiric portrayal of the hedonism of the mid-20th-century upper classes of English society.

      Raven was educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, and King's College, Cambridge. He resigned as an officer in the British army to write his first novel, The Feathers of Death (1959). This was followed by the 10-part novel sequence Alms for Oblivion, which includes The Rich Pay Late (1964), Fielding Gray (1967), The Judas Boy (1968), Sound the Retreat (1971), and The Survivors (1976). Some characters reappear in his later seven-book series The First-Born of Egypt, which starts with Morning Star (1984) and ends with The Troubadour (1992).

      His television dramatizations—among them Aldous Huxley (Huxley, Aldous)'s Point Counter Point (1968), Anthony Trollope (Trollope, Anthony)'s The Pallisers (1974), Nancy Mitford (Mitford, Nancy)'s Love in a Cold Climate (1980), and Edward and Mrs. Simpson (1980)—reached wide audiences.

      Among his other writings are an autobiography, Shadows on the Grass (1982); and memoirs, The Old School (1986) and Birds of Ill-Omen (1989).

Additional Reading
Michael Barber, The Captain: The Life and Times of Simon Raven (1996).

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