Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987)
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Roger Lancelyn Green was born in England in 1918, where his family has lived for more than 900 years. He was often sick as a child and spent long periods confined to his room devouring Greek myths, medieval romances, and fairy tales. Green began a lifelong fascination with Greece and Greek culture vis mere when he first visited that country in 1935. He went on to compile and retell many Greek stories, including "Old Greek Fairy Tales," and "Jason and the Golden Fleece." Green also wrote his own stories, but he is better known for his retellings of folk tales from around the world. Roger Lancelyn Green died in 1987 (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Roger Lancelyn Green
Mystery at Mycenae 6 eksemplarer
From the World's End 5 eksemplarer
Holmes, This Is Amazing: Essays in Unorthodox Research 4 eksemplarer
[King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)] [By: Green, Roger Lancelyn]… 3 eksemplarer
Two Satyr Plays 2 eksemplarer
By Roger Lancelyn Green - King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Puffin Classics) (Reissue) (1995-03-16)… 2 eksemplarer
The Wonderful Stranger 2 eksemplarer
اساطیر یونان 1 eksemplar
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The lost July, and other poems 1 eksemplar
Poulton Lancelyn: the story of an ancestral Home 1 eksemplar
The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors (Puffin Classics) by Green, Roger New Edition (1994) 1 eksemplar
Collectible 3 Bodley Head Monographs LEWIS CARROLL, E NESBIT, HOWARD PYLE First Thus 1968 DJ 1 eksemplar
THE SEARCHING SATYRS. THE ICHNEUTAI OF SOPHOCLES 1 eksemplar
The Mystery of Andrew Lang 1 eksemplar
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Associated Works
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur (1989) — Bidragyder — 301 eksemplarer
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Bidragyder — 117 eksemplarer
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction (2008) — Bidragyder — 114 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Green, Roger Lancelyn
- Juridisk navn
- Green, Roger Gilbert Lancelyn
- Andre navne
- GREEN, Roger Gilbert Lancelyn
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn - Fødselsdato
- 1918-11-02
- Dødsdag
- 1987-10-08
- Begravelsessted
- Headington Quarry Churchyard, Oxford, England, UK
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Bebington, Cheshire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Poulton Hall, Wirral, Cheshire, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- Merton College, Oxford University (B.Litt)
- Erhverv
- author
biographer
children's book author
librarian - Relationer
- Lancelyn Green, Richard (son)
Lewis, C. S. (tutor) - Organisationer
- Lewis Carroll Society
University of Liverpool
Inklings - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (1975)
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This version is a great introduction to the Arthur myth in an easier to read language than say Mallory’s Morte D’Arthur, but still keeps very well to the traditional tale. That said modern readers might find the violence and less than sensitive treatment of various social issue a bit confronting these days.… (mere)