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Comic, cool, warm and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- A. G. Macdonell
- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company, The Reprint Society, St.Martin's P
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330280419
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Archibald Gordon Macdonell was a Scottish writer, journalist, and broadcaster. He was born in Poona, India, to a Scottish family. He served as a lieutenant of the Royal Field Artillery during World War I. He then joined the League of Nations in 1922. He later made his living as a journalist in London, writing stage reviews for the *London Mercury*. He became famous in 1933 for the publication of the satirical novel *England, their England*. Also highly praised is his *Autobiography of a Cad*, a grimly comic portrait of a 1930s Tory. He also wrote a number of novels and plays, as well as some military history. Under the pseudonym of **Neil Gordon** he wrote five detective novels, including a
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