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Anglais britannique. Genres. Roman, science-fiction, fantastique, roman policier, nouvelle, essai, scénario. modifier. Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, né le 17 janvier 1883 à West Hartlepool, dans le comté de Durham, en Angleterre, et mort le 30 novembre 1972 à Édimbourg ( Écosse ), est un écrivain et scénariste britannique .
Autore di circa un centinaio tra romanzi, racconti e novelle, ha lasciato nella sua autobiografia, La mia vita e i miei tempi (My life and times, 10 voll., 1963-71), un prezioso repertorio di ricordi del periodo edoardiano. Donne pericolose è un libro di Compton Mackenzie pubblicato da Sonzogno nella collana Bittersweet: acquista su IBS a 15. ...
28 nov 2020 · Compton Mackenzie’s Sinister Street (One volume edition) Moreover, Mackenzie provides significant support to Orwell early on in his writing career giving favourable reviews in the Daily Mail. And most crucially, it is Mackenzie who helps plant the idea in Orwell’s mind of retreating to a Scottish island.
Rockets Galore. (novel) Rockets Galore is a 1957 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It is the sequel to his 1947 novel Whisky Galore, and sees the inhabitants of a remote Scottish island resist a government plan to build a missile base on their home. The author refers to it, in an Author's Note, as a 'bitter farce', as ...
11 apr 2017 · Sir Compton Mackenzie is today best remembered for writing two comic novels set in Scotland - The Monarch of the Glen, which inspired the BBC drama series of the same name, and the much-loved ...
Compton Mackenzie was born into a theatrical family. His father, Edward Compton, was an actor and theatre company manager; his sister, Fay Compton, starred in many of James M. Barrie's plays, including Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
Mackenzie’s next novel, Sinister Street, originally published in two volumes (the first in 1913, the second in 1914), consolidated his reputation. Sinister Street was lapped up by such young readers as Waugh, Scott Fitzgerald, Cyril Connolly, and his schoolmate the future George Orwell. When the First World War broke out, Charles Lister, a ...
