Fortitude: Being a True and Faithful Account of the Education of an Adventurer [Hardcover]

Hugh Walpole (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2005

1913. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. He achieved financial and literary success with Fortitude. The novel is a romance; a fairytale about a young man who very naively believes in almost everything; one of the author's school stories based on his experiences as a teacher, and an epic account of another young writer in the making. Its opening line acts as a clarion call: It isn't life that matters, but the courage you bring to it! See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was an English novelist, born in New Zealand, and educated at Cambridge. His first two novels were failures, but with Fortitude (1913) he achieved financial and literary success. In addition to books he wrote short stories, several plays, biographies of Joseph Conrad (1916) and Anthony Trollope (1928), and the screenplay for the film David Copperfield (1934) - in which he also appeared as an actor. He was a prolific writer who became one of the most popular authors on both sides of the Atlantic, admired by the public and the critics alike. The dust-wrappers of his books are littered with critical accolades that would be the envy of today's leading novelists. In addition, he was an excellent public speaker and his series of lecture tours in the States during the 1920s and 30s were the most popular since those of Dickens eighty years earlier. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 484 pages
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (April 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1432623273
ISBN-13: 978-1432623272
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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This book cites 6 books:

David Copperfield (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 29, page 32, and page 46
The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum by Rupert Smith on page 161
East Lynne (Oxford World's Classics) by Ellen Wood on page 213
Piccadilly Circus (Archive Photographs) by David Oxford on page 253
Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert (Oxford Popular Fiction) by Ouida on page 213

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