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Informationen zum Autor William Alexander Gerhardie was born in St Petersburg! Russia! in 1895. As a young man he went to London and! when the First World War broke out! joined the army. He was first sent to Russia and later travelled the world before beginning to write. Futility (1922)! his first novel! was sponsored by Katherine Mansfield! and other notable works of his include The Polyglots (1925) and Of Mortal Love (1936). Gerhardie´s writing was acclaimed as an influence on many of his peers! including Anthony Powell! H. G. Wells! Evelyn Waugh! Graham Greene and Olivia Manning. He died in London in 1977. Klappentext A story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. It is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative! Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh! who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Zusammenfassung Teeming with bizarre characters - depressives! obsessives! paranoiacs! hypochondriacs! and sex maniacs - Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevocably entwined.
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William Alexander Gerhardie was born in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1895. As a young man he went to London and, when the First World War broke out, joined the army. He was first sent to Russia and later travelled the world before beginning to write. Futility (1922), his first novel, was sponsored by Katherine Mansfield, and other notable works of his include The Polyglots (1925) and Of Mortal Love (1936). Gerhardie's writing was acclaimed as an influence on many of his peers, including Anthony Powell, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Olivia Manning. He died in London in 1977.
