Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
Auteur de Gaudy Night
A propos de l'auteur
Dorothy Sayers's impressive reputation as a contemporary master of the classic detective story is eclipsed only by Agatha Christie's. Sayers was born in Oxford and attended Somerville College, where she received a B.A. in 1915 and an M.A. in 1920. During that period, Sayers worked as an instructor afficher plus of modern languages at Hull High School for Girls in Yorkshire and as a reader for a publisher in Oxford. Her early literary work was in poetry; she published several volumes and served as an editor for the journal Oxford Poetry from 1917 to 1919. Sayers also worked as a copywriter for a major advertising firm in London. She was president of the Modern Language Association from 1939 to 1945 and of the Detection Club in the 1950s. Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language. Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction---a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters---Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money. Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Dorothy L. Sayers
Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine (2004) 376 exemplaires
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death (1923) 191 exemplaires
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist (1995) 175 exemplaires
On the Case with Lord Peter Wimsey: Three Complete Novels/Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Unnatural Death (1991) 123 exemplaires
Three Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels: Whose Body?, Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night (1992) 104 exemplaires
The Dorothy L. Sayers Crime Collection: Murder Must Advertise, the Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, Have His Carcass & Strong… (1997) 53 exemplaires
The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays (The Gospel in Great Writers) (2018) 52 exemplaires
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume II (1931) — Directeur de publication — 47 exemplaires
Lord Peter and Harriet: Part II (Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon, Lost Classics Omnibus) (1937) 37 exemplaires
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Strong Poison, The Five Red… (2018) 32 exemplaires
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror (1928) — Directeur de publication — 32 exemplaires
Omnibus: Containing Whose body? The unpleasantness at the Bellona club, Suspicious characters (1923) 31 exemplaires
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume I (1928) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Four Classic Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night/Busman's Honeymoon (1990) 27 exemplaires
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection: Lord Peter Views the Body / Hangman's Holiday / In the Teeth of the… (2018) 25 exemplaires
Five Red Herrings: Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey (BBC Radio Collection) (1978) 24 exemplaires
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1: Three classic full-cast dramatisations (2017) 23 exemplaires
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume III (1934) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Volume Four: 1951-1957: In the Midst of Life (1998) 19 exemplaires
Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers (2017) 18 exemplaires
The Second Omnibus Of Crime: The World's Great Crime Stories (1932) — Directeur de publication — 18 exemplaires
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three: Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, and Busman's… (2018) 17 exemplaires
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Whose Body?, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Five Red Herrings, Nine… (1990) 16 exemplaires
Have His Carcase: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Ian Carmichael & Maria Aitken (BBC Radio Collection) (1981) 15 exemplaires
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection, Volume 3: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 14 exemplaires
Striding Folly [short story] 14 exemplaires
Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) (2018) 14 exemplaires
Mystery (The Case of the Perfect Maid, The Third-Floor Flat, The Image in the Mirror, The Red-Headed League) (1989) 13 exemplaires
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 12 exemplaires
Three Great Lord Peter Novels: "Strong Poison", "Murder Must Advertise" and "Nine Tailors" (1978) 10 exemplaires
The Christ of the Creeds: And Other Broadcast Messages to the British People During World War II (2008) 8 exemplaires
Wilkie Collins a Critical and Biographical Study: A Critical and Biographical Study (1977) 8 exemplaires
The mysterious English 8 exemplaires
Clouds of Witness [and] The Documents in the Case 7 exemplaires
God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L. Sayers (2019) 6 exemplaires
Early Works of Dorothy Sayers 6 exemplaires
The Sayers holiday book 5 exemplaires
The other six deadly sins: An address given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October… (1943) 4 exemplaires
Mitt namn är Wimsey 4 exemplaires
Beyond Schooling: Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Kriminalhistorier 4 exemplaires
Peter Wimsey historier 4 exemplaires
De cyperse kat en dertien andere moordzaken 3 exemplaires
Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Strong Poison / Unnatural Death / Busman's Honeymoon (1982) 3 exemplaires
Have his carcase 3 exemplaires
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection 3: Murder Must Advertise / The Nine Tailors / Busman's Honeymoon (2004) 3 exemplaires
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume VI — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Two Lord Peter Whimsey Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers 3 exemplaires
OBRAS ESCOGIDAS. EL MISTERIO DE RIDDLESDALE LODGE. LORD PETER DESCUBRE EL DELITO. CINTO PISTAS FALSAS. EL CASO DEL… (1964) 2 exemplaires
Complete Novels of Dorothy L Sayers (Grapevine Press) 2 exemplaires
Peter Wimsey Omnibus - Whose Body? Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon (Unabridged) (2012) 2 exemplaires
GREAT TALES OF DETECTION (EVERYMAN'S CLASSICS S) 2 exemplaires
Les Origines du Roman Policier: A Wartime Wireless Talk to the French. The Original French Text with an English… (2003) 2 exemplaires
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume IV — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Lord Peter Wimsey 2 exemplaires
In the Teeth of Evidence (First Edition) 2 exemplaires
Dorothy L. Sayers Set (6 novels) 1 exemplaire
The Emperor Constantine, a chronicle 1 exemplaire
The Poetry of Search and Poetry of Statement 1 exemplaire
Gaudy Nights 1 exemplaire
Strong Poison a Peter Wimsey Novel 1 exemplaire
Masterpieces Of Mystery And Detection 1 exemplaire
A "caixa" 1 exemplaire
Complete Works of Dorothy L Sayers (Grapevine Press) 1 exemplaire
OBRA SELECTA 1 exemplaire
The Story of Noah's Ark 1 exemplaire
strong poison 1 exemplaire
The Omnibus of Crime 1 exemplaire
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking (a collection of quotable quotes) (2010) 1 exemplaire
MORTE DUPLA 1 exemplaire
Backgrounds to World Literature. Classics for Christians Volume I (1980) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The greatest single defect of my own Latin education 1 exemplaire
The Story of Adam and Christ 1 exemplaire
Onrust in Oxford & Moord op de ijzeren trap 1 exemplaire
Let's Choose Executors 1 exemplaire
Dorothy Sayers Unnatural Death - 10th Impression - 4' Cheap Edition - Lord Peter Detective Model (Cheap Edition) 1 exemplaire
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume V — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Two Lord Peter Wimsey Stories 1 exemplaire
Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries 1 exemplaire
Sayers, Dorothy L 1 exemplaire
Třikrát lord Petr 1 exemplaire
O Mistério de Battersea 1 exemplaire
Ein unheimlicher Kunde 1 exemplaire
Das Spiegelbild 1 exemplaire
The Dorothy L. Sayers Omnibus: The Five Red herrings, Strong Poison, Lord Peter Views the Body (1933) 1 exemplaire
And Telling You a Story 1 exemplaire
The Man Born to be King [abridged] [sound recording] 1 exemplaire
Dorothy Sayers Box Set (Four Mystery Classics Featuring the Inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey, Box Set: Whose Body?; Strong… (1968) 1 exemplaire
anything that she writes 1 exemplaire
Detective omnibus 1 exemplaire
The Art of the Actor 1 exemplaire
The House Of The Soul Lay 1 exemplaire
Dante papers trilogy. 1 exemplaire
The Emperor Constantine 1 exemplaire
The Lord Peter Wimsey MEGAPACK® 1 exemplaire
Wimsey papers : being war-time letters and documents of the Wimsey family [anthology] [ebook] 1 exemplaire
The Classic Collection of Dorothy L. Sayers. Novels and short stories. Illustrated: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness,… 1 exemplaire
The second omnibus of crime 1 exemplaire
Tales of Detection. Everyman's Library No. 928 1 exemplaire
Strong poison and Have his carcase, 1 exemplaire
Dorothy L. Sayers 4 Book Set - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Strong Poison - Murder Must Advertise -… (1963) 1 exemplaire
Strong Poison: A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel 5 1 exemplaire
The 2nd Omnibus of Crime 1 exemplaire
Busman's holiday 1 exemplaire
Dorothy Sayers bedste Lord Peter-Historier 1 exemplaire
The Murder of Julia Wallace [essay] 1 exemplaire
Unnatural Death; the Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Have His Carcase; in the Teeth of Evidence; Whose Body;… 1 exemplaire
THE LORD PETER WIMSEY COLLECTION 1 exemplaire
Her Oxford 1 exemplaire
Dorothy L. Sayers: Starkes Gift "Strong Poison" 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
- Autres noms
- Fleming, Dorothy Leigh
Flemming, Dorothy Leigh Sayers - Date de naissance
- 1893-06-13
- Date de décès
- 1957-12-17
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Anne's Church, London, England, UK
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Witham, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- coronary thrombosis
- Lieux de résidence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Witham, England, UK - Études
- Oxford University (MA|1920|Somerville College)
Godolphin School, Salisbury - Professions
- copywriter
playwright
translator
mystery writer
essayist
The Detection Club, president - Relations
- Reynolds, Barbara (goddaughter)
- Organisations
- Detection Club
- Prix et distinctions
- Archie Goodwin Award (2007)
Blue Plaque - Courte biographie
- Although best known as a writer of Golden Age British mystery novels featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers also was a student of classical and modern languages, a playwright, and an essayist. Her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy is still considered a classic.
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- Œuvres
- 325
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- 155
- Membres
- 64,024
- Popularité
- #221
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1,570
- ISBN
- 1,358
- Langues
- 24
- Favoris
- 452