Книга: Fergus Hume «The Pagan's Cup»

The Pagan's Cup

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""Oh,""laughed Rangely,""I'm not to be entrapped into giving metaphysical and theological definitions. I mean what we are expected to call wickedness, conventionally speaking. I've an old cad of a parson in my new play and I am trying to decide if it will do to have him advocate a grand scheme for reforming the world by reversing definitions and calling those things men choose to do virtues, and dubbing whatever man detests, vices.""Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1891 года (издательство" London, Digby, Long" ). Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие" огрехи" :помарки, кляксы и т. п.

Издательство: "Книга по Требованию" (1891)

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Fergus Hume

Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume (8 July 185912 July 1932) was an English novelist.

Early life

Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume. At the age of three his father emigrated with his family to New Zealand. He attended high school in Dunedin and studied law at the University of Otago, he was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation he left for Melbourne, Australia where he obtained a post as a barristers' clerk. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of the Melbourne theatres to accept or even read them.

Rise to fame

Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, he obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of a similar kind. The result was the self-published novel "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1886), which became a great success. He based his descriptions of low life on his knowledge of Little Bourke Street. He sold the English and American rights to the novel for fifty pounds, and thus derived little benefit from its success. It eventually became the top selling mystery novel of the Victorian era.

After the success of his first novel and the publication of another, "Professor Brankel's Secret" (c.1886), Hume returned to England in 1888. He resided in London for few years and then he moved to the Essex countryside where he lived in Thundersley for thirty years, eventually producing over 100 novels and short stories. He continued to be anxious for success as a dramatist, and at one time Henry Irving was favourably considering one of his plays, but he died before it could be produced. Hume did not court publicity and little is known of his personal life. The writer of the obituary notice in The Times stated that he was a deeply religious man who in his last years did much lecturing to young people's clubs and debating societies. He died at Thundersley, Essex, on 12 July 1932.

Hume was a capable writer of mystery stories, and may be looked upon as one of the precursors of the many writers of detective stories whose work was so popular in the twentieth century.

External links

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* [http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/fergus-hume.htm Fergus Hume bibliography]

References

*Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Fergus|Last=Hume|Link=http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogHi-Hu.html#hume1
*Pauline M. Kirk, ' [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040500b.htm Hume, Fergusson Wright (Fergus) (1859–1932)] ', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, pp.443-444

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