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510 pages, text in english, Gold embossing-back / 510 Seiten, Text auf englisch, Goldpräge-Rücken Howard Spring (10 February 1889 - 3 May 1965) was a Welsh author and journalist. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels. The most successful was Fame Is the Spur (1940), which has been both a major film starring Michael Redgrave and a BBC television series (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman. In 1931, after reporting on a political meeting at which Lord Beaverbrook was the speaker, Beaverbrook was so impressed by Spring's piece that he arranged for Spring to be offered a post with the Evening Standard in London, as a book reviewer. Spring described the offer as "irresistible", and the appointment proved very successful. At the same time, Spring was developing his ambitions as a writer; his first book, Darkie and Co., came out in 1932, followed by his first novel, Shabby Tiger, which was set in Manchester, published by William Collins, Sons in 1934. Shabby Tiger was adapted as a TV series and produced by Granada Television in 1973. It starred John Nolan as Nick and Prunella Gee as Anna, with Sharon Maughan making her TV debut as the glamorous and ambitious Rachel Rosing. A sequel to the novel followed a year later, Rachel Rosing (Collins, 1935). Both were published in the U.S. in 1936. The children's story Sampson's Circus, illustrated by Steven Spurrier and published by Faber & Faber in 1936, was one of two commended runners up for the Library Association's inaugural Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's outstanding contribution to children's literature by a British subject.His first major success in the adult market came with My Son, My Son! (1937), originally titled O Absalom, which was very successful in America and was adapted there as a 1940 film of the same name. It was adapted for television by the BBC in 1977. It is his most translated work; WorldCat libraries report editions in Chinese and six other languages.Howard Spring died of a stroke. In 1967, his widow Marion Howard Spring wrote an affectionate story of their life together called 'Howard', with a foreword by A. L. Rowse, published by Collins. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 620.
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