Countess Glika and Other Stories
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| Title: | Countess Glika and Other Stories | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1919 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Cassell and Company Limited | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, short stories | ||||||||||
| Description: | 'Countess Glika' is but one story. Also contains 'The Red Shirt', "The Girl on the Mountain', The Lady on the Treeace' and 'Bitter Silence'. The first four are set in Europe, are sentimental; syrupy, one could say. 'Bitter Silence', though, is easily the pick of the crop. The shortest one here, the experiences of an author who is the only means of support of his extended family and for that reason risks the white feather for failing to answer the call during the Great War. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 41 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 186  |
Author Bio for Deeping, Warwick (George)
He was one of the best selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s, with seven of his novels making the best-seller list. Deeping was a prolific writer of short stories, which appeared in such British magazines as Cassell's, The Story-Teller, and The Strand. He also published fiction in several US magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and Adventure. All of the short stories and serialized novels in U.S. magazines were reprints works previously published in Britain. Well over 200 of his original short stories and essays that appeared in various British fiction magazines were never seen in book form. Those works are now available in the multi-volume "Lost Stories" collection.
His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels more usually dealt with modern life, and were critical of many tendencies of twentieth-century civilisation. His standpoint was generally that of a passionate individualism, distrustful both of ruling elites and of the lower classes, who were often presented as a threat to his embattled middle-class protagonists. His most celebrated hero is Captain Sorrell M.C., the ex-officer who after the War is reduced to a menial occupation in which he is bullied by those of a lower social class and less education. Deeping's novels often deal with controversial issues.--Wikipedia.
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