Laurence Meynell (1899–1989)
Auteur de The Fairly Innocent Little Man
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Laurence Meynell
First men to fly 5 exemplaires
Sotar-Murre 2 exemplaires
Monica Anson, travel agent 2 exemplaires
Penny haluaa ponin : tyttöromaani 2 exemplaires
The mauve front door (Crime Club series) 2 exemplaires
Party of Eight 1 exemplaire
Nurse Ross shows the way 1 exemplaire
Peter's Busy Day 1 exemplaire
Ted's lucky ball 1 exemplaire
Exmoor 1 exemplaire
The Dark Square 1 exemplaire
Hooky and the Prancing Horse 1 exemplaire
The Breaking Point 1 exemplaire
Paid in full 1 exemplaire
The Bus Leaves for the Village 1 exemplaire
James Brindley: The Pioneer of Canals 1 exemplaire
Sleep of the unjust 1 exemplaire
Rolls: Man of Speed - A Life of Charles Stewart Rolls and Some Account Of the Early Days of Motoring and Flying. 1 exemplaire
Lois 1 exemplaire
The shadow and the stone 1 exemplaire
The mystery at Newton Ferry 1 exemplaire
Storm against the wall 1 exemplaire
So many doors 1 exemplaire
Third time unlucky [microform] 1 exemplaire
The door in the wall; a novel of adventure 1 exemplaire
The house on the cliff 1 exemplaire
The Young Architect 1 exemplaire
The Echo in the Cave 1 exemplaire
Animal Doctor 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
The Thirteen Trumpeters | A Stench of Poppies | A Sprig of Sea Lavender (1979) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Meynell, Laurence Walter
- Autres noms
- Eton, Robert
Tring, A. Stephen
Ludlow, Geoffrey
Baxter, Valerie - Date de naissance
- 1899-08-10
- Date de décès
- 1989-04-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Wolverhampton, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Wolverhampton, England, UK
Buckinghamshire, England, UK
near Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK - Professions
- teacher
copywriter
estate agent
writer - Relations
- Darbyshire, Shirley (first spouse)
Henley, Joan (second spouse) - Organisations
- Honourable Artillery Company (World War I)
Royal Air Force (World War II)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 98
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 210
- Popularité
- #105,678
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 77
- Favoris
- 1
Set in 1910, this book features a very rare independent and strong-willed woman, to whom I warmed immediately. That she has seen tragedy is evident upon her first introduction and that she has a back story we want to share is equally clear. I found her intriguing, relatable, and admirable, and I ached for how alone she seemed and how subject to the whims of the men who flit through the story. Laurence Meynell has painted in Miss East a character one cannot help but root for.
”When the world ends, how will it be recorded in the history books ten thousand years from now when all the stupidity and agony have started up again? Most likely in a single sentence it will say, ‘In the year nineteen hundred and whatever-is-going-to-be the world came to an end.’ Mine came to an end four years ago. On March 27th.”
In our concern for the coming of the end of the world, we seem to lose sight that for each of us the world ends individually. There is a personal “end of the world” and we each have at least one end coming to us. What might matter most is what we do with the time in between and who we love along the way.
My thanks to Claire, without whom I would certainly never have discovered this little gem. I’m glad some person in 1970 picked it off the drugstore rack and that it passed through all the hands to which the bent spine attests and made its way to me. If you get the chance, read it.
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