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James Riordan (1) (1936–2012)

Auteur van Tales of King Arthur

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Tales of King Arthur (1982) 149 exemplaren
Jason and the Golden Fleece (2003) 82 exemplaren
On the Run (2009) 73 exemplaren
Peen en de grrrote tijger (1995) 68 exemplaren
Little Bunny Bobkin (1998) 65 exemplaren
The Twelve Labours Of Hercules (1997) 64 exemplaren
Russian Gypsy Tales (1986) — Vertaler — 58 exemplaren
The Kingfisher Treasury of Irish Stories (1995) — Redacteur — 55 exemplaren
Stories from the Sea (1996) 47 exemplaren
Fairy Tales (1982) 42 exemplaren
Even zwegen de wapens (2000) 40 exemplaren
The Sniper (2008) 39 exemplaren
Sweet Clarinet (1998) 34 exemplaren
Tales from the Arabian Nights (1981) 34 exemplaren
The Enemy Closes In (2009) 28 exemplaren
Favorite Stories of the Ballet (1984) 25 exemplaren
Mergen and his Friends (1973) 22 exemplaren
The Coming Of Night (1999) 20 exemplaren
Rebel Cargo (2007) 19 exemplaren
The Prisoner (1999) 16 exemplaren
Three Magic Gifts (1980) 15 exemplaren
Tales from Tartary (1978) 13 exemplaren
Fairy & Folk Tales from around the World (1986) — Redacteur — 11 exemplaren
Match of Death (2002) 11 exemplaren
War Song (2001) 11 exemplaren
Blood Runner (1800) 10 exemplaren
A World of Folk Tales (1981) 10 exemplaren
Teeny Tiny (Rigby Literacy) (2000) 9 exemplaren
The Wild Swans (Golden Classics) (1987) — Adaptor — 9 exemplaren
Thumbelina (1990) 8 exemplaren
Stories of the Ballet (1984) 8 exemplaren
Pinocchio (Oxford Illustrated Classics) (1996) — Auteur — 7 exemplaren
Soviet youth culture (1989) 5 exemplaren
Folk tales of the British Isles (1987) 5 exemplaren
The Cello (2003) 4 exemplaren
Sport under Communism (1978) 4 exemplaren
The secret castle (1980) 3 exemplaren
Great expectations 3 exemplaren
Right-Wing Revisionism Today (1976) 2 exemplaren
The Gift (2004) 2 exemplaren
Beauty and the beast (1979) 2 exemplaren
The little puppet boy (2007) 2 exemplaren
The Snowmaiden (1990) 1 exemplaar

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Riordan, James William
Geboortedatum
1936-10-10
Overlijdensdatum
2012-02-11
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
England
Geboorteplaats
Portsmouth, England, UK
Beroepen
scholar of sport
translator
children's book author

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I was electrified when i just noticed this book and immediately scooped it.

The story seemed so interesting that I couldn't sit still until i passed the book to my English teacher, who was in football business those days (never a pro himself but was through youth squads of 50-s/60-s and therefore retained many connections with the guys who actually made it into the first teams of Moscow based Soviet Premiership clubs). Of course he was an avid football fan and a staunch supporter of precisely Spartak Moscow.

His immediate reaction after reading this opus was one of the bewilderment. He never encountered any Riordan or Jordanov playing in starting XI or coming in as a sub. Moreover factual errors were of extraordinary brazen character. The man confused the venue at which the game took place: Tashkent (now in Uzbekistan) for Moscow which are 1 700 miles apart (according to Google Earth), let alone climatic and geographical differences which are still evident even to a blind man.

This and other glaring inconsistencies forced him to give a call to pro players, then active, and ask for clarifications. No one could remember such player. And to conceal such a player would be harder than to hide the proverbial needle in a haystack. Just so you know: there were few players of foreign origin (f.e. Spaniards - kids of Spanish Reds - evacuated in the wake of the Spanish Civil War to USSR) in Soviet Championship those years. And everyone remembers their presence nowadays albeit not always their names.

And no one even remembers a Briton, if you don't trust official statistics. Sorry. Nothing personal. But please don't sell a fiction for a real story.

If he was a real player it would be trumpeted all over as triumph of Communist sport's attractiveness over "sweat-extracting" professional sport of "rotting West".
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Mustygusher | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 19, 2022 |
Acércate a la mitología de una manera fácil y sencilla.
 
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iesmiguelservet | 1 andere bespreking | Apr 3, 2022 |
An overall nice telling. Not spectacular, but altogether catches the virtue and valor of the tale.
 
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Werken
89
Ook door
4
Leden
1,759
Populariteit
#14,631
Waardering
3.8
Besprekingen
24
ISBNs
291
Talen
11

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