H. C. McNeile - Knowledge

3546: 152: 428:, it is the hero who lives the exciting life". Although he was an "unremittingly hearty man", he suffered from delicate health following the war. He had a loud voice and a louder laugh, and "liked to enliven clubs and restaurants with the sight and sound of military good fellowship"; his friend and collaborator Gerard Fairlie described him as "not everybody's cup of tea", and commented that "he was loud in every possible way—in his voice, in his laugh, in his clothes, in the unconscious swagger with which he always motivated himself, in his whole approach to life". McNeile and his wife had two sons. 797: 276: 546: 944: 901:, he writes, "To bag a man with a gun is one thing; there is sport—there is an element of one against one, like when the quality goes big game shooting. But to bag twenty men by a mine has not the same feeling at all, even if they are Germans". The motif was continued into the Drummond novels. McNeile reinforces this theme through his use of the language of public school sports, or of boxing, poker or hunting. The titles of his books also use sporting imagery: 4007: 4019: 3565: 889:

threats directed at the upper middle classes, of which Drummond was a member. Drummond's nickname—Bulldog—is symbolic of England, and he and his English gentlemen friends—"the Breed"—fight the conspiracy of foreigners threatening England's stability. McNeile's thriller stories do not often pit Englishman against Englishman as the main characters; most of the foreigners in his books are the villains.

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melodrama". The academic Joan DelFattore points out that while the characters and plots cannot be considered to be unique, credible or well-rounded, his books "make no claim to literary excellence", and are instead, "good, solid thrillers". Usborne agrees, and believes that McNeile wrote good stories that were flawed but well told. Meyer classifies the non-war stories as

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November 1918. During the course of the war, he had spent a total of 32 months in France, and had probably been gassed more than once. His literary output from 1915 to 1918 accounted for more than 80 collected and uncollected stories. His brother—also in the Royal Engineers—had been killed earlier in the war.

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McNeile's fictional work—particularly his Drummond series of books—shows characters who have served in the war and have been affected by it; Jaillant comments that Drummond's war-time experience "has shaped his social identity, his skills, and even his physical appearance". The Drummond character has

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The major theme running throughout McNeile's works is the First World War. Between 1915 and 1918 he had five collections of short stories published about the war, while his post-war fiction can be seen as an extension of those stories, as "both treat the war as a trial with manhood at stake". His war

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McNeile's early works, the war stories published before 1919, are either "plot-driven adventure narrative", such as the short stories "The Song of the Bayonet" and "Private Meyrick, Company Idiot", or "atmospheric vignette", such as "The Land of Topsy Turvy" and "The Human Touch". McNeile would write

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in the St. Quentin-Cambrai sector in September 1918; during the year, he was again mentioned in dispatches. On 2 October 1918 he broke his ankle and was briefly hospitalised, which forced him to relinquish his command of the battalion on 4 October. He was on convalescent leave when the war ended in

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McNeile provided Drummond with a "flamboyantly aggressive patriotism" towards England, which Drummond defends physically against those who challenge its stability or morality. Bertens tried to argue that the patriotism demonstrated by Drummond was closer to nationalistic pride and a paranoia about

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DelFattore outlines the use of double adjectives to reinforce feelings towards enemies in both his war stories and thrillers, such as "filthy, murdering Boche", and "stinking, cowardly Bolshevik". She and the scholar Lise Jaillant also comment on the dehumanisation of the enemy, comparing them to

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reminded its readers that McNeile "has been called the foremost literary genius of the British army." Jaillant observes that once McNeile moved from war stories to thrillers, with the concurrent re-positioning of advertising and marketing by Hodder & Stoughton, the reviewers also treated him

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agreed, adding that the female characters were "cardboard" and that McNeile was "wonderfully forgetful" about characters dead in one book and alive in the next. In the Bulldog Drummond stories, Watson identifies the central character as "a melodramatic creation, workable only within a setting of

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about 1,000 words every morning in a routine that was rarely disturbed; he took no breaks while writing and would do no re-writes until he completed his work. The academic Jessica Meyer has criticised his style as having "little aesthetic merit, being stylised, clichéd and often repetitive";

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selling 396,302 copies between 1920 and 1939, exceeding the 100,000-copies benchmark for "best-sellers". At his peak in the 1920s, he was the highest paid short story writer in the world, and it was estimated that in the last five years of his life he was earning around £10,000 a year; the

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Throughout the Drummond stories, much of the language used by McNeile relating to ethnic minorities or Jews is considered by DelFattore to be "intensely conservative by modern standards"; Green observes that while the characters of other contemporary writers, such as

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McNeile's works fall into two distinct phases. Those works published between 1915 and 1918 are his war stories, and relate directly to his experiences during the First World War, while the later works are largely thrillers. His war stories were marketed by the

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and Hodder & Stoughton as a soldier's eyewitness accounts. When he started writing thrillers, Hodder & Stoughton advertised McNeile as a "light and entertaining" writer, and began publishing his works in the "Yellow Jacket" series.

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McNeile's war stories were seen by reviewers as honest portrayals of the war, with British and American reviewers in the mainstream press praising his realism and avoidance of sentimentality in dealing with his subject matter. Reviewing

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when he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. He came to an agreement with Fairlie for the play to continue after his death and for Fairlie to continue writing the Drummond stories. McNeile died on 14 August 1937 at his home in

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over the following months. Northcliffe was impressed by his writing and attempted, but failed, to have him released from the army to work as a war correspondent. By the end of 1915, he had written two collections of short stories,

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From the 1950s on, McNeile's work came to be viewed in the light of events of the Second World War, and journalists such as Richard Usborne highlighted aspects of the stories which he considered were "carrying the

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between 8 and 14 June 1916. The articles were aimed at young and new officers to explain their duties to them; these were collected together and published by Hodder & Stoughton later in 1916.

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and was promoted to acting lieutenant-colonel; the scholar Lawrence Treadwell observes that "for an engineer to command an infantry regiment was ... a rarity". 18th Battalion,

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that included two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish. He was one of the most successful British popular authors of the

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Bourn disputes the Fairlie background to the character, noting that it was Fairlie who made the claim, although "he was still at school when Sapper created his ... hero".

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Running throughout McNeile's books is the metaphor of warfare as sport. His war stories include descriptions of fights between individuals that carry a sporting motif: in

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McNeile's stories are either directly about the war, or contain people whose lives have been shaped by it. His thrillers are a continuation of his war stories, with

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ceremony. The film earned $ 750,000 at the box office, and McNeile received an estimated £5,000 for the rights to his novel. The same year he wrote his second play—

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stories were considered by contemporary audiences as anti-sentimental, realistic depictions of the trenches, and as a "celebration of the qualities of the

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Bertens, Hans (1990). "A Society of Murderers Run on Sound Conservative Lines: The Life and Times of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond". In Bloom, Clive (ed.).

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of the period, McNeile's go far beyond the 'polite' norms". J. D. Bourn considers his language to be "rather distasteful", while the academic

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The following year McNeile introduced the character of Jim Maitland, a "footloose sahib of the period". Maitland was the protagonist of the 1923 novel

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McNeile did not like either of his given names but preferred to be called Cyril, although he was always known by his friends as Mac. After attending a

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at Bodmin, and Christiana Mary (née Sloggett). The McNeile family had ancestral roots from both Belfast and Scotland, and counted a general in the

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Meyer, Jessica (2007). "The Tuition of Manhood: Sapper's War Stories and the Literature of the War". In Hammond, Mary; Towheed, Shafquat (eds.).

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considers that through the Drummond stories, McNeile was seen at the time as "simply an upstanding Tory who spoke for many of his countrymen".

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On 13 June 1919 McNeile retired onto the reserve officer list and was confirmed in the rank of major. The same year he also published a novel,

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from 13 January 1915. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names except during their

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element was introduced. Jaillant notes that the accusations of fascism only came about after the Second World War, while the academic

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Clubland Heroes: A Nostalgic Study of the Recurrent Characters in the Romantic Fiction of Dornford Yates, John Buchan and "Sapper"

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was finished by Fairlie and had a short tour of Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh, before opening in London at the

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Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. Although he was seen at the time as "simply an upstanding

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differently, and presented him as "a writer of thrillers, without any pretension to literary seriousness". When reviewing

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animals and vermin. Watson noted the frequency of the use of the word "devil"—and variations—when discussing antagonists.

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before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to damage sustained from a gas attack in the war.

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also characterised him as a mass-market thriller writer, which contrasted with its consideration of his earlier works.

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as Drummond. Later in 1922 McNeile resigned his reserve commission with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and moved as a

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Drummond, McNeile's chief literary legacy, became a model for other literary heroes created in the 1940s and '50s.

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playing the title role; it ran for 428 performances. The play also ran in New York during the same season, with

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During his time with the Royal Engineers, McNeile saw action at the First and Second Battles of Ypres—he was

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been "brutalized by war", which accounts for his physical approach when dealing with Peterson and others.

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and on English gentlemen generally. McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and

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published in 1915 sold 139,000 copies. By the end of the war he had published three more collections,

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under McNeile saw action for the remainder of his command, and were involved in fighting during the

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who spoke for many of his countrymen", after the Second World War his work was criticised as having

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After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to

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Du Maurier again played the role on 8 November 1932 in a special charity performance at the

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in January 1930. About a year later he and his wife returned to England, and settled near

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became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend

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on 21 December 1937. The story was later turned into a novel by Fairlie, with the title

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McNeile's war story collections sold well; nearly 50,000 copies of his first book,

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Although published in the 1920s and 30s, the Maitland stories were set in 1912–13.

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Although there are claims that suggest Sapper's first stories were published in

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Bull-Dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull

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Bourn, J. D. (October 1990). "Sapper: Creator of Bull-Dog Drummond".

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notes that "as in the novels of fellow best-selling writers such as

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states that he had written "practically nothing" prior to the war.

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Malcolm McNeile was also later the governor of Lewes Naval Prison.

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Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller

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crematorium. At his death his estate was valued at over £26,000.

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Snobbery With Violence: English Crime Stories and their Audience

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estimated that during his writing career he had earned £85,000.

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On 2 November 1914 McNeile travelled to France as part of the

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The seven Bulldog Drummond novels written by Fairlie are:

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He is also named as Arthur Sholto Douglas in some sources.

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Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History

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The play was later adapted for the screen and became the

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The novel was first published in the UK under the title

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McNeile had a quiet life after the war; his biographer

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In 1929 McNeile edited a volume of short stories from

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A War Imagined: The First World War and Modern Memory

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In 1937 McNeile was working with Fairlie on the play

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Green, Jonathon (2004). "McNeile, (Herman) Cyril ".

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"The Making of an Officer". 1515: 107:McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other 4055:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 3344:The Popular Press Companion to Popular Literature 2380: 1174:The four Drummond novels with Carl Peterson are: 754:used McNeile's work as a model for his character 4031: 3582:of the original dust jackets on McNeile's books. 3190:The Boy's Second Book of Great Detective Stories 2859: 1833: 1785: 1439: 1199:The six Drummond novels with Irma Peterson are: 2935: 2918: 1485: 1483: 1481: 1479: 1477: 1475: 1473: 659:in the title role. Colman was nominated for an 598:; he later appeared in a second novel in 1931, 138:apparent in some other writers of the period. 2835: 1869:(Supplement). 20 December 1918. p. 15039. 1849:(Supplement). 27 December 1918. p. 15241. 1660: 3620: 3290: 2485: 1382: 3350:Bowling Green State University Popular Press 3166:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 3058:(1988). "Herman Cyril McNeile (Sapper)". In 2999: 1879: 1470: 232:In 1914 McNeile was promoted to the rank of 3492: 2438: 2328:Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2221: 1781:(Supplement). 11 January 1916. p. 579. 1607: 1560: 3627: 3613: 3389: 3054: 2912: 2532: 2445:"Obituary: Lieut.-Colonel Cyril McNeile". 2374: 2176: 2153: 1949: 1914: 1853: 1540: 953:, based on McNeile's play of the same name 247: 205:, from which he was commissioned into the 3417: 2520: 2508: 2479: 2464: 2432: 2420: 2362: 2306: 2294: 2267: 2215: 2203: 2191: 2136: 2124: 2022: 1930:(Supplement). 22 July 1919. p. 9401. 1509: 1421: 289:Reminiscences of Sergeant Michael Cassidy 3234: 3186: 2900: 2885: 2778: 2727: 2673: 2559: 2227: 2093: 2078: 1995: 1968: 1920: 1859: 1839: 1819: 1813: 1771: 1727: 1710: 1698: 1654: 1642: 1619: 1586: 1566: 1546: 1386: 942: 874: 795: 544: 274: 201:. On leaving the college, he joined the 170:. 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London. 15 August 1937. p. 17. 1464: 1433: 291:, was serialised on page four of the 130:overtones, while also displaying the 552:for US screenings of the 1922 film, 215:Royal School of Military Engineering 178:who at the time was governor of the 715: 567:for the stage. It was produced at 13: 4105:20th-century British screenwriters 3064:British Mystery Writers, 1920–1939 837: 766:was "Sapper from the waist up and 534:". After Carl Peterson's death in 481:. 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Diamond Publishing Group. 3048:The Book and Magazine Collector 2992: 2866:"Sapper's Books Made £85,000". 1594:. 12 January 1915. p. 381. 1580: 1309: 1296: 1275: 1266: 1243: 1226: 1193: 1168: 1159: 1142:The Return of Bull-Dog Drummond 1110: 1089: 1080: 832: 694:collaborated on the screenplay 387:; in November that year he was 225:in June 1910 and was posted to 4110:20th-century English novelists 3768:The Return of Bulldog Drummond 3697:The Return of Bulldog Drummond 3253:Johns Hopkins University Press 1829:. 16 March 1917. p. 2741. 1556:. 9 August 1907. p. 5450. 1490:"War Made 'Sapper' a Writer". 1221:The Return of Bulldog Drummond 1071: 1056:List of works by H. C. 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In 1916 he was awarded the 258:destroyed by incendiary bombs 197:, he was further educated at 146: 4115:People from West Chiltington 3180:UK public library membership 1341:The Return of the Black Gang 1329:Bulldog Drummond Stands Fast 1317:Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor 920: 851:, his series of articles in 745:Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor 240:Arthur Baird Douglas of the 141: 109:novels and story collections 7: 3808:Bulldog Drummond Comes Back 3562:(public domain audiobooks) 1385:, p. xi: as quoted in 700:, a "comedy thriller" with 254:British Expeditionary Force 221:. He received promotion to 10: 4136: 4085:British male screenwriters 3832:Bulldog Drummond in Africa 3816:Bulldog Drummond's Revenge 3119:Greenwood Publishing Group 2948:. 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Henry 600:The Island of Terror 344:Men, Women, and Guns 299:half-pay sabbaticals 162:McNeile was born in 35:Herman Cyril McNeile 3113:Frank, Sam (1997). 3029:The Macmillan Press 2915:, pp. 221–222. 2843:Fowler, Christopher 1701:, pp. 140–141. 1657:, pp. 163–164. 1014:(1922)—is when the 792:Style and technique 474:The Strand Magazine 377:Battle of the Somme 305:, the owner of the 283:, published in 1917 242:Cameron Highlanders 184:British Indian Army 71:, the owner of the 4065:People from Bodmin 3338:Neuburg, Victor E. 3320:Palgrave Macmillan 2945:The New York Times 2928:The New York Times 2402:on 14 January 2009 2234:The London Gazette 1927:The London Gazette 1866:The London Gazette 1846:The London Gazette 1826:The London Gazette 1778:The London Gazette 1592:The London Gazette 1573:The London Gazette 1553:The London Gazette 1360:for the US market. 986:The New York Times 955: 886: 805: 669:3rd Academy Awards 559: 487:Loamshire Regiment 401:Middlesex Regiment 397:Middlesex Regiment 285: 238:Lieutenant-Colonel 219:Aldershot Garrison 199:Cheltenham College 160: 156:Cheltenham College 32: 3981: 3980: 3958:Bullshot Crummond 3923:Other adaptations 3532:Project Gutenberg 3509:978-0-7136-0170-1 3459:978-0-09-152821-8 3433:978-0-7864-0769-9 3422:. 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