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Stewart, J.I.M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755130413 ISBN 13: 9780755130412

Casa editrice: House of Stratus, 2012

Riassunto

This is the third novel in the Oxford quintet entitled Staircase in Surrey. Duncan Pattullo returns in middle age to his old college. The provost is heavily engaged in trying to secure a benefaction from a charitable trust that the old and outrageous Cedric Mumford influences. One significant complication is the presence in college of Ivo Mumford, Cedric’s grandson. He is badly behaved and far from a credit to the college. His magazine, Priapus, proves to be wholly objectionable. Stewart explores the nature of the complicated relationships between the characters with his usual wit, literary style, and intellectual precision, and turns what might otherwise be a very common and ordinary situation into something that will grip the reader from cover to cover.

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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was born in Edinburgh in 1906 and attended Edinburgh Academy before going up to Oriel College, Oxford. By 1935, he had been awarded the jury chair at the University of Adelaide in Australia as professor of English and had also completed his first detective novel, Death at the President’s Lodging, published under the pseudonym Michael Innes. This was an immediate success and part of a long-running series centered on Inspector Appleby, his primary character when writing as Innes. There were almost fifty titles under the Innes banner completed during his career. In 1946, Stewart returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University in Belfast, before being appointed Student (Fellow and Tutor) at Christ Church, Oxford. He was later to hold the post of Reader in English Literature of Oxford University and upon his retirement was made an emeritus professor.

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• Editore: House of Stratus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0755130413
• ISBN 13: 9780755130412
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 278