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Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912–1964)

Forfatter af Of Love and Hunger

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Værker af Julian Maclaren-Ross

Of Love and Hunger (1947) 182 eksemplarer
Collected Memoirs (2004) 55 eksemplarer
Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 48 eksemplarer
Selected Stories (2004) 37 eksemplarer
Selected Letters (1716) 12 eksemplarer
The Funny Bone (1956) 7 eksemplarer
The Doomsday Book (1961) 6 eksemplarer
Until the Day She Dies (1960) 6 eksemplarer
Hasta el día en que ella muera (2022) 3 eksemplarer
My Name is Love (1964) 2 eksemplarer
The Stuff To Give The Troops (1945) 2 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Maigret og kvinden der forsvandt (Maigret et la Grande Perche) (1934) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver425 eksemplarer
The Penguin New Writing No. 30 (1947) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
TLS Short Stories (2003) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
The Penguin New Writing No. 27 (1946) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Penguin New Writing No. 26 (1945) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Best Crime Stories 3 (1968) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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Recommended by K.J., who noted that Powell based X. Trapnel on Maclaren-Ross. K.J. was surprised to note that this novel is really very good. I agree.
 
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k6gst | 6 andre anmeldelser | Aug 6, 2023 |
Injustamente ignorado en nuestro país, Maclaren-Ross, el excéntrico escritor inglés admirado por Graham Green y George Orwell, retrata en esta novela la agitada vida del Soho a través de dos inolvidables personajes, Richard y Sukie, y sus andanzas por pubs y hoteluchos. Una novela de gran ingenio donde se mezcla la indigencia y el romanticismo, en la mejor tradición de la literatura cómica británica.
 
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Natt90 | 6 andre anmeldelser | Oct 23, 2022 |
Utterly engrossing account, narrated by one Richard Fanshawe and set in the immediate lead-up to World War 2. Fanshawe is an educated man - a former journalist in India, where things didn't work out - but is currently scraping a living as an unsuccessful vacuum cleaner salesman. In debt to his tobacconist and others; struggling to keep a roof over his head by fobbing off the landlady to whom he is in arrears; and with occasional recollections of his unhappy past surfacing, life isn't good. Then his colleague goes off to be a ship's steward, leaving his adored wife in Fanshawe's care... And the War is looming, but is of secondary importance in the struggle for survival...

I absolutely loved it, especially the hilarious incidents in his salesmanship career.
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starbox | 6 andre anmeldelser | Jul 9, 2016 |

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