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25 mar 2024 · Compton Mackenzie (born Jan. 17, 1883, West Hartlepool, Durham, Eng.—died Nov. 30, 1972, Edinburgh) was a British novelist who suffered critical acclaim and neglect with equal indifference, leaving a prodigious output of more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies.
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11 apr 2024 · 11 Apr 2024 · 16 min read. Photo by Amy Eileen Hamm. In 1947, an English author who had made Scotland his home published a comic novel set in the Hebrides during the Second World War. Compton Mackenzie’s Whisky Galore told the story of a wily group of villagers who outwitted the authorities to steal a consignment of whisky from a sinking ...
1 giorno fa · Hitherto, publishers and writers had been haunted by the hounding of Sir Compton Mackenzie, who in 1932 had been forced to plea-bargain or face imprisonment for an alleged breach of the Act for his memoir of Great War service with Military Intelligence, Greek Memories.
23 ore fa · I flicked through the entries, and I loved this, from 14 March 1937, about The Years. Woolf’s penultimate novel was published in early 1937, and here she is reflecting on praise for it: I am in such a twitter owing to two columns in the Observer praising The Years that I can’t, as I foretold, go on with Three Guineas. Why I even sat back ...
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21 mar 2024 · Toutes les informations de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France sur : Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972)
25 mar 2024 · Past adjudicators have included Louisa Young, Alex Wheatle, Andrew Miller, Louise Doughty, AL Kennedy, Vikram Seth, Philip Hensher, Joanne Harris, Deborah Moggach and, going back further, Kingsley Amis and Compton Mackenzie.
