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Harold Begbie (1871–1929)

Auteur de The Bible in story and pictures;

50+ oeuvres 321 utilisateurs 4 critiques

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Œuvres de Harold Begbie

The Bible in story and pictures; (1956) 57 exemplaires
The Children's Story Bible (1948) 24 exemplaires
The Mirrors of Downing Street (1920) 20 exemplaires
Life Changers: 13th Edition (1923) 11 exemplaires
Broken Earthenware (1937) 10 exemplaires
Other Sheep (2010) 7 exemplaires
The Struwwelpeter Alphabet (1900) 5 exemplaires
The Bed-Book of Happiness (1914) 5 exemplaires
On the Side of the Angels (1915) 4 exemplaires
The Great World (1925) 3 exemplaires
The Conservative Mind (1924) 3 exemplaires
Declension 2 exemplaires
The Lady Next Door (2006) 2 exemplaires
The Vigil (2016) 2 exemplaires
The Other Door (1926) 2 exemplaires
Broken lights 2 exemplaires
The Challenge 1 exemplaire
The Laslett affair (2019) 1 exemplaire
Julius : a novel 1 exemplaire
Plain Sailing (1929) 1 exemplaire
The Happy Irish (2015) 1 exemplaire

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The Undying Monster (1922) — Appendix, quelques éditions62 exemplaires
Rosemary — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Autres noms
Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym)
Date de naissance
1871
Date de décès
1929
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Professions
journalist

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Wonderful satirical verses accompanying colour caricatures of the likes of Buller, German Emperor, Harcourt, John Morley - 'writing books he likes much merely' -, Stead, Rhodes, Salisbury, ending up with Zola.
 
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jon1lambert | Dec 6, 2019 |
4847. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections, by A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie) (read 7 Aug 2011) There are in this book short essays on 15 Englishmen then prominent or recently prominent in English life, including Lloyd George, Kitchener, Grey, Asquith, and Churchill. The comments on most seem reasonable, but the comments on Churchill, indicating that people would not look to him for inspiration, were proven very wrong in 1940.
 
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Schmerguls | Aug 7, 2011 |
Andrew Latter has trained his mind to see, through his dreams, the resolution to mysterious crimes. In each of these short stories, Latter thinks about an unsolved case before he goes to sleep, views the crime in great detail in his dream, and reports the result to Scotland Yard when he wakes.

The stories certainly highlight the intense interest in spiritualism which abounded in the early twentieth century - the focus is the 'dream world' and Latter's journey through dreams. The stories themselves are not terribly exciting. The mystery is resolved as soon as Latter falls asleep and sees what happened.

Jack Adrian's introduction to this edition is far more interesting, detailing Begbie's interests and career. Begbie wrote propaganda during the first World War and appeared to believe stories of angels assisting British troops during battle. I was far more engaged in Adrian's description of the angel controversy than I was in Begbie's stories.
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Pencils | Nov 3, 2010 |
In 1909 psychologist Harold Begbie goes into a small slum district of London to conduct a research project. Inspired by a book, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, Mr. Begbie wants to bring a companion book to James' book to describe the psychological effects of Christian conversion in the "lowest of the low" of the inhabitants of this small section of London. The Salvation Army was in the earliest stages of its work and Mr. Begbie enlists their help in finding his subjects. He presents the life stories of nine of the worst drunkards and criminals who had drastic life reformations after walking up to the "penitent form" at the front of a Salvation Army meeting hall. He concludes his study by saying, "When I visit the happy homes and experience the gentleness, kindness and refinement of such people as those whose life-stories appear in this book, and compare them with the squalor and misery of the great majority of homes surrounding them, I am astonished that the world should be so incredulous about religion, and that legislation should be so foolish as to attempt to do laboriously by enactments, clumsy and slow, what might be done instantly and easily by religion, if it had the full force of the community at its back."… (plus d'informations)
 
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seoulful | Feb 20, 2008 |

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Œuvres
50
Aussi par
2
Membres
321
Popularité
#73,715
Évaluation
½ 3.5
Critiques
4
ISBN
35
Langues
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