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David Garnett

 

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David Garnett : Go She Must

While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came every day with novels to read aloud and amuse them both, starting with David Garnett's [italics]Go She Must[end italics].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew      Print: Book

  

David Garnett : A Man in the Zoo

Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

David Garnett : Lady into Fox

Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

David Garnett : The Sailor's Return

Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because they [italics]don't[end italics] go off. A Man at the Zoo [sic] fails at the end because the author daren't put the lady into the cage as well as the man. But Fox and Sailor strengthen steadily.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      

  

David Garnett : Lady into Fox

'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever seen.'
[Hence follow ten lines of praise.]

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

  

David Garnett : A Man in the Zoo

'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be congratulated in pulling off this piece with great tact and subtlety.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

 

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