Laurence Meynell (1899–1989)
Auteur van The Fairly Innocent Little Man
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Peter's Busy Day 1 exemplaar
Ted's lucky ball 1 exemplaar
Exmoor 1 exemplaar
The Dark Square 1 exemplaar
Hooky and the Prancing Horse 1 exemplaar
The Breaking Point 1 exemplaar
Paid in full 1 exemplaar
The Bus Leaves for the Village 1 exemplaar
James Brindley: The Pioneer of Canals 1 exemplaar
Sleep of the unjust 1 exemplaar
Lois 1 exemplaar
The shadow and the stone 1 exemplaar
The mystery at Newton Ferry 1 exemplaar
Storm against the wall 1 exemplaar
So many doors 1 exemplaar
Third time unlucky [microform] 1 exemplaar
The door in the wall; a novel of adventure 1 exemplaar
The house on the cliff 1 exemplaar
The Young Architect 1 exemplaar
The Echo in the Cave 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Meynell, Laurence Walter
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Eton, Robert
Tring, A. Stephen
Ludlow, Geoffrey
Baxter, Valerie - Geboortedatum
- 1899-08-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1989-04-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Wolverhampton, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Wolverhampton, England, UK
Buckinghamshire, England, UK
near Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK - Beroepen
- teacher
copywriter
estate agent
writer - Relaties
- Darbyshire, Shirley (first spouse)
Henley, Joan (second spouse) - Organisaties
- Honourable Artillery Company (World War I)
Royal Air Force (World War II)
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- Werken
- 98
- Ook door
- 7
- Leden
- 210
- Populariteit
- #105,678
- Waardering
- 3.3
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 77
- Talen
- 1
- Favoriet
- 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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