Hugh Walpole

The Captives (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Strikingly bright characters. Such a well-designed image of moods, places and feelings. Maggie Cardinal’s father dies very suddenly, leaving her alone, not very upset, since he never showed special love for her. She is „strange”, „misunderstood” a captive in a world in which others fit in, but she does not.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ktoczyta.pl
• Seitenzahl: 593
• Altersempfehlung: ab 6 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788382006643
• Artikelnr.: 58743265

Autorenporträt

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was a prolific English novelist, a contemporary of writers such as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. Born on March 13, 1884, in Auckland, New Zealand, to an Anglican clergyman father, Walpole moved to England as a young child. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge before embarking on a writing career that produced a vast array of novels, short stories, and criticism, often characterized by a vivid sense of narrative and an abiding interest in the complexities of human psychology and society. Walpole's literary style oscillated between Gothic and modernist, and he was particularly esteemed for his 'Herries Chronicle,' a series of historical novels set in the Lake District, which helped cement his reputation in the interwar period. One of Walpole's notable works, 'The Captives' (1920), engages with themes of freedom and confinement, both literal and psychological, revealing Walpole's nuanced exploration of human motives and relationships. Knighted in 1937 for his services to literature, Walpole's reputation has varied posthumously, but his role in shaping 20th-century English literature is indelible. He passed away on June 1, 1941, leaving behind a deeply textured literary legacy that continues to be studied and enjoyed.