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Martin Boyd, a life

Brenda Niall

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Description:This is the first biography of Martin Beckett Boyd (1893-1972), Anglo-Australian novelist and member of Australia's best known family of artists.Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by WW1. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life.Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable, yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, an old family house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expats in Rome.In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before WW1, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Martin Boyd, a life. To get started finding Martin Boyd, a life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 268

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 1990

ISBN: 0522844006

Description: This is the first biography of Martin Beckett Boyd (1893-1972), Anglo-Australian novelist and member of Australia's best known family of artists.Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by WW1. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life.Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable, yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, an old family house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expats in Rome.In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before WW1, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Martin Boyd, a life. To get started finding Martin Boyd, a life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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