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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.
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Pretty Creatures: [stories]. Preface by Michael Holroyd. (Faber Finds)
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London: Faber and Faber, 2008
ISBN 10: 0571247423
ISBN 13: 9780571247424
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wrappers. Reprint (stories first published by Ernest Benn, 1927; revised edition by Macdonald, 1974); from the library of Sir Michael Holroyd. "The three short novels and two short stories that together comprise Pretty Creatures were all written between the years 1924 and 1925," writes Holroyd, "and they show Gerhardie's particular gifts in their purest form. The prose is highly compressed, stripped of all inessentials. It relies on verbs and adverbs rather than on adjectives - a cleaner, more wholesome style. In a review of Pretty Creatures, Arnold Bennett claimed that here was the prose style of the future: 'Car le mot c'est le Verbe et le Verbe c'est Dieu.' Not a word is wasted.". Seller Inventory # HK100039
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