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Farnol
By:Pat Bryan
Published on 2001-01 by iUniverse

For over 40 years, the swashbuckling historical romances of Jeffery Farnol (1878-1952) ranked with the best-selling fiction in the world. At least six movies were made of his books, featuring stars like Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard Barthelmess and Edna May Oliver. His stories were serialised in McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, and other leading magazines and daily newspapers on every continent. They were translated into Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish. Radio adaptions were broadcast in England, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, while dramatic and musical versions appeared in British and American theatres. Today, on the used book market, his rarer titles command prices up to $300. Farnol worked in the factories of Birmingham, as a scene-painter in Hell's Kitchen, N.Y., and as a war correspondent in France. Both Queen Mary and her son, King George VI, requested his services in providing stories and articles about charities they espoused; his reporting of the Jack Dempsey/Georges Carpentier world heavyweight championship was lauded by the famous 'Bat' Masterson as a masterpiece of sports writing. Here, finally, is the definitve authorised biography of this prolific storyteller whose work brought untold pleasure to millions over the years.

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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it absolutely was designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. On top of that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for every character for a few pages). None people had browse the play before. None people wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. This compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it can definitely fuck up your GPA. 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