The Lunatic at Large [Paperback]

J. Storer Clouston (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 2007

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J. Storer Clouston, OBE, the son of physician Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an old Orkney family. After being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Echo Library (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1406846384
• ISBN-13: 978-1406846386
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,642,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: The Lunatic at Large (Collins Library) (Hardcover)

Thank you, Dave Eggers and your magazine, for re-introducing modern readers to this hilarious tale of a sweetly madcap lunatic. I can hear echoes of the lunatic in some of P G Wodehouse's tales. Great Britain's upper class come in for only a modest ribbing and, to reassure those with sensitive sensibilities, mental illness is not made fun of.