C. E. Montague (1867–1928)
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- Nom légal
- Montague, Charles Edward
- Date de naissance
- 1867-01-01
- Date de décès
- 1928-05-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Manchester, England, UK
- Études
- City of London School
University of Oxford (Balliol College) - Professions
- journalist
military intelligence officer (WWI)
novelist
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- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 158
- Popularité
- #133,026
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 23
"War is not everything, nor need the best soldier be at all other times the best man. But the points where we made a poor show in the war were mainly points of sheer arrest in development; our youths were relatively stunted; something seemed to have got in their way before they could become, in the proper course of mental and moral growth, as self-reliant and as quick to take new means to new ends as the youths from Canada and Australia who made it so painfully plain that they thought of "Tommy" as undersized in body and mind."
On the extinction of the landed gentry class following the war: "There was an undeniable charm about the idea that you could make yourself a real vertebra in the backbone of your country by hunting on four days a week, shooting on one, and riding in on another to imprint your darling conception of corrective justice upon proceedings at petty sessions. If only the practice of virtue were so agreeable!"
His writing is clear and easy to follow, but I think is too reserved and understated, and lacking in vitality. Read H.M.Tomlinson for a warmer and more poetic style.… (plus d'informations)