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Harold Begbie (1871–1929)

Teoksen The Bible in story and pictures; tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

The Bible in story and pictures; (1956) 57 kappaletta
The Children's Story Bible (1948) 24 kappaletta
The Mirrors of Downing Street (1920) 20 kappaletta
Life Changers: 13th Edition (1923) 11 kappaletta
Broken Earthenware (1937) 10 kappaletta
Other Sheep (2010) 7 kappaletta
The Struwwelpeter Alphabet (1900) 5 kappaletta
The Bed-Book of Happiness (1914) 5 kappaletta
On the Side of the Angels (1915) 4 kappaletta
The Great World (1925) 3 kappaletta
The Conservative Mind (1924) 3 kappaletta
Declension 2 kappaletta
The Lady Next Door (2006) 2 kappaletta
The Vigil (2016) 2 kappaletta
The Other Door (1926) 2 kappaletta
Broken lights 2 kappaletta
The Challenge 1 kappale
The Laslett affair (2019) 1 kappale
Julius : a novel 1 kappale
Plain Sailing (1929) 1 kappale
The Happy Irish (2015) 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Undying Monster (1922) — Appendix, eräät painokset62 kappaletta
Rosemary — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Yleistieto

Muut nimet
Gentleman with a Duster (pseudonym)
Syntymäaika
1871
Kuolinaika
1929
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
UK
Ammatit
journalist

Jäseniä

Kirja-arvosteluja

Wonderful satirical verses accompanying colour caricatures of the likes of Buller, German Emperor, Harcourt, John Morley - 'writing books he likes much merely' -, Stead, Rhodes, Salisbury, ending up with Zola.
 
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jon1lambert | Dec 6, 2019 |
4847. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections, by A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie) (read 7 Aug 2011) There are in this book short essays on 15 Englishmen then prominent or recently prominent in English life, including Lloyd George, Kitchener, Grey, Asquith, and Churchill. The comments on most seem reasonable, but the comments on Churchill, indicating that people would not look to him for inspiration, were proven very wrong in 1940.
 
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Schmerguls | Aug 7, 2011 |
Andrew Latter has trained his mind to see, through his dreams, the resolution to mysterious crimes. In each of these short stories, Latter thinks about an unsolved case before he goes to sleep, views the crime in great detail in his dream, and reports the result to Scotland Yard when he wakes.

The stories certainly highlight the intense interest in spiritualism which abounded in the early twentieth century - the focus is the 'dream world' and Latter's journey through dreams. The stories themselves are not terribly exciting. The mystery is resolved as soon as Latter falls asleep and sees what happened.

Jack Adrian's introduction to this edition is far more interesting, detailing Begbie's interests and career. Begbie wrote propaganda during the first World War and appeared to believe stories of angels assisting British troops during battle. I was far more engaged in Adrian's description of the angel controversy than I was in Begbie's stories.
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Pencils | Nov 3, 2010 |
In 1909 psychologist Harold Begbie goes into a small slum district of London to conduct a research project. Inspired by a book, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, Mr. Begbie wants to bring a companion book to James' book to describe the psychological effects of Christian conversion in the "lowest of the low" of the inhabitants of this small section of London. The Salvation Army was in the earliest stages of its work and Mr. Begbie enlists their help in finding his subjects. He presents the life stories of nine of the worst drunkards and criminals who had drastic life reformations after walking up to the "penitent form" at the front of a Salvation Army meeting hall. He concludes his study by saying, "When I visit the happy homes and experience the gentleness, kindness and refinement of such people as those whose life-stories appear in this book, and compare them with the squalor and misery of the great majority of homes surrounding them, I am astonished that the world should be so incredulous about religion, and that legislation should be so foolish as to attempt to do laboriously by enactments, clumsy and slow, what might be done instantly and easily by religion, if it had the full force of the community at its back."… (lisätietoja)
 
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