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Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous tales (the 'Berry' books) and some serious thrillers (the 'Chandos' books), were best-sellers in the period between the First and Second World Wars.
It is the 'Chandos' novels to which Alan Bennett especially refers in naming Dornford Yates in the play Forty Years On (1972): "Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature." Yates also wrote other thrillers in the same ...
Pages in category "Novels by Dornford Yates" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adèle and Co.
To give Mr Dornford Yates his due he is expert in light banter; but some three hundred pages of such entertainment tend to create a sense of surfeit." [ 7 ] The reviewer ended on a more positive note, saying "Mr Yates can be strongly recommended to anyone who thinks that the British take themselves too seriously", [ 7 ] a quotation that Ward ...
B-Berry and I Look Back is the second volume of fictionalised memoirs of the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), published in 1958 and featuring his recurring 'Berry' characters - Berry, Daphne, Boy, Jill and Jonah. The first volume, As Berry and I Were Saying, had been published in 1952. B-Berry and I Look Back was Yates's ...
It became the Mercer family's permanent home in 1922 after the book was published. [ 2 ] All of the stories in Jonah and Co. had originally appeared in The Windsor Magazine between October 1921 and September 1922, [ 2 ] although the original editions of the book (until c. 1925) included a Prologue and Epilogue that had not been included in the ...
An Eye for a Tooth is a 1943 adventure novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), the sixth in his 'Chandos' thriller series. The events of the story immediately follow those of Blind Corner .
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