809:'The English Captain', 'Storm', 'The Rook', 'Prongs', 'Travellers', 'The Gates', 'The Gurnet', 'The Seal', '"Indian Red"', 'The Galleon', 'The Big Man', 'Death of a Gardener', 'Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow', 'The White Cottage', 'Tuesday Afternoon', 'Snow Caps', 'The Fort', 'Lobsters', 'The Absentee', 'The Imposition', 'The Nice Cup o' Tea', 'A Shot in the Garden', 'West Highland Interlude', 'Mr. Kerrigan and the Tinkers', 'Coming to Tea', 'Here's Something You Won't Put in a Book', 'Tinkers' Road', 'Love', 'Evening Piece', 'On the Pier', 'Sun on the Water'.
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381:(1930), the "story of an American who goes to visit for the first time his English cousins in the West Highland house where his ancestors had lived," judges that Strong's "feeling for 'the land' seems to be that of a tourist whose sensibilities are fluttered by views and sunsets," but who also concluded that in his talent "lies the possibility of a delicate comedy akin to that of
397:, given the romantic qualities he admires), declaring of the heroine, "the splendor of her legend is a romantic figure out of a romantic time but a figure too robust for sentimental tenderness, too vital to be the focus of nostalgic revery" and adding that she is drawn "with sympathy and understanding but without sentimentality or exaggeration." Richard Cordell, reviewing
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832:'Introduction' by Richard Dalby, 'The Buckross Ring', ' "Splidges" ', 'Mr Tookey', 'The Farm', 'Tea at Maggie Reynolds's', 'Breakdown', 'The Gates', 'Crabtree's', 'Death of the Gardener', 'Orpheus', 'Sea Air','Lobsters', 'The Doll', 'Let Me Go', 'Danse Macabre', 'The House That Wouldn't Keep Still', 'Light Above the Lake', 'Afterword: The Short Story'.
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Trevannion is...almost a fallen angel. The kind of man who was once affluent and respected... An 'insurance' man...A 'gypsy' soothsayer...A crook. But into his life comes another crook... Trevannion...falls in love (at 60) with a girl of 18 and is almost redeemed... Mr. Strong...has a wealth of
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Highlands called, from the long sea lochs which indent it, the Seven Arms, where, amidst an isolated Gaelic speaking people who have preserved almost unchanged the manners and traditions of their ancient past lived, at the beginning of the last century, a
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that "there is nothing ingenious or fanciful in his writing—which means that the emotion is always preferred before the form, not the form before the emotion; and that, I fear, is uncommon enough in the short stories of today. There is one piece in particular—Mr. Kennedy in
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Later, Strong formed a literary partnership with an Irish friend, John
Francis Swaine (1880–1954), paying Swaine a percentage of royalties for five novels and numerous short stories, published between about 1930 and 1953, which were attributed to Strong. These included the
1878:) from prolific Author Strong. A rugged romance, laid in the English Dartmoor country 50 years back, in which an earthy farm beauty, her rough-&-ready mother, her good, bad and indifferent suitors, a devil in a tree strive to outdo the violence of the landscape.
1179:& Sons, 1945. ("About a year ago, the Incorporated Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama ... asked Mr. L. A. G. Strong if he would write a book which would show clearly ... problems relating to the everyday use of our mother speech."—Foreword.)
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A poor title for a good outdoor story of fishing and adventure on the coast of northern
Scotland. ... Two boys spend their vacation together, with a Scot of the old school, and play their part in solving the mystery of the French
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Strong enjoyed describing countrysides. He often dramatized the beginning and flourishing (and at times tragic ending) of romance between young people. For these reasons, among others, his fiction writing was sometimes considered
1911:...Strong's first venture into the field of crime fiction... The question that intrigues him about the mysterious happenings in a West Country village is not how the murder was done but how it came to be committed at all.
125:(1948). Swaine's short stories described the thoughts and experiences of an Irish character, Mangan, a fictional version of Swaine himself. Strong wrote many works of non‐fiction and an autobiography of his early years,
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John
Francis Swaine reference authority the Oxford Companion to English Literature, Ninth Edition, General Editor Professor Dinah Birch. Swaine's papers and manuscripts are lodged with the National Library of Ireland,
241:. Many of his adventure and romance novels were set in Scotland or the West of England. The classic short story "Breakdown", a tale about a married man who has the perfect plan to murder his mistress, and which has a
1732:...uses the wild Atlantic coast of Ireland as a setting... 'hero,' an exhausted dilettante who has given up both authorship and the practice of medicine, is suffering from a mental breakdown...
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Charge—which contains the virtues of all the rest; delicate perception of character, tenderness, vigour, and a sublimation of brute pain. It is a stupendous piece of imaginative writing."
310:. One reviewer commented, "In a break from tradition, the film substitutes the novel's unhappy ending with an even unhappier one." Strong collaborated on or contributed to such filmscripts as
178:, published after his death, described his family (including a grandmother in Ireland), his earliest years, his school-days, and his friendships at Wadham College; among them were Yeats and
74:, of an Irish mother, Marion Jane (née Mongan), and a half-Irish father born in the United States, Leonard Ernest Strong (1862/3–1948), a chemical works manager (eventually director of
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416:, Mario Guslandi writes, "at his best, Strong has an uncanny ability to create gentle, vivid and fascinating stories bound to leave the reader enchanted." Ian McMillan of the
884:. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1948. (a short story "recounting the infatuation a British woman develops in a German resort hotel for a German guest")
174:. He was a director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. from 1938 until his death. For many years he was a governor of his old school, Brighton College. Strong's autobiography,
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life... a thorough, carefully documented study of character...divided into different parts by a tendency towards violence and an opposed attachment to his ideals...
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College, Oxford, as an Open Classical Scholar (studies in literature and the arts). There, he came under the influence of
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asserted in 1935, "L. A. G. Strong can be counted on for a nostalgic picture of the call of the wild, and spins a good yarn as well." Garrett
Mattingly, in
2001:...the leakage of secret information provokes a probe of Nosworthy, a suspect publisher, Holland, an actor and ex-commando, and Finch, a surly historian...
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Strong began by writing poetry and published three volumes in the early 1920s. Next, he turned his hand to short stories, and his first collection,
1026:. London: Methuen, 1939. (one-act play; "a powerful drama of village life, three times broadcast on the National programme" - blurb by Methuen)
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132:(1961). He gained a wide interest in literature and wrote about many important contemporary authors, including
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Rolling Road: The Story of Travel on the Roads of Britain and the Development of Public Passenger Transport
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of contemporary writers. Cohn was a New York book collector who of necessity became a bookseller due to the
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264:, was the first book sold by Captain Louis Henry Cohn, the founder of House of Books, which specialized in
253:.) His supernatural stories were often reprinted, as well. Strong was interested in the paranormal, as his
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and other horror stories attest, and believed he had seen ghosts and witnessed psychic phenomena.
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Fiction," in
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489:. London: A. P. Tayler, 1953. ("Limited to 100 copies printed privately for the author.")
78:), and was proud of his Irish heritage. His father was a grandson and great-grandson of
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Portraits of People Whose Houses have been Preserved by the National Trust
1013:, selected and introduced by Richard Dalby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Following his death in Guildford, Surrey, a memorial service was held for him at
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in 1957. He also edited anthologies of poetry, sometimes in collaboration with
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821:. Leyburn, North Yorkshire, England: Tartarus Press, 2009. (hardcover,
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712:. London: Methuen, 1952. ("Many of these stories have been broadcast.")
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heroine who might have come straight out of the ancient epics of Gael.
389:." Mattingly shows hostility to sentimentalism twice in his review of
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was one of his cousins; he wrote the foreword for her autobiography,
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The Buckross Ring and Other Stories of the Strange and Supernatural
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The Buckross Ring and Other Stories of the Strange and Supernatural
1265:. Illustrated by Jack Matthew. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1937.
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706:. London: Methuen, 1948. (set in the seaside town of Dycer's Bay)
572:. London: Victor Gollancz ; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935.
2086:. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Life in English Literature: Being, an Introduction for Beginners
1060:. Published by L. & V. Woolf at Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
942:. Leeds, England: Salamander Press, 1946. (a tale of witchcraft)
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992:, edited by Peter Haining. Souvenir Press, 1995; and elsewhere.
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The Body's Imperfection: The Collected Poems of L. A. G. Strong
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The Third Level of Reality: A Unified Theory of the Paranormal
988:, compiled by Lady Cynthia Asquith. New York, Scribner, 1953;
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English Domestic Life During the last 200 Years: an Anthology
1076:. London: Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. (about
999:, edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith. London: James Barrie, 1955.
393:(as his own writing can wax sentimental, perhaps he slightly
1006:, compiled by Andrew MacKenzie. London: Arthur Barker, 1972.
401:, likewise calls it "an exciting, unsentimental adventure."
921:& Eileen Bigland. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935.
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Academics of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
1157:. Introduction by Mary Somerville. London: Methuen, 1941.
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Mattingly, Garrett (12 October 1935). "Robust Romance".
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A Gallery of Ghosts: An Anthology of Reported Experience
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appeared in 1931 (first American edition in 1932), and
105:(1923), and his career as a novelist was launched with
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Cordell, Richard A. (8 July 1939). "Return to Life".
930:. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. Reprinted in:
620:. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder. London: Dent, 1940.
1134:. London: London School of Journalism, . 6 volumes.
850:, September, 1929, pp. 139–145. Reprinted in:
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1377:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
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1322:Dr. Quicksilver, 1660-1742: The Life and Times of
245:, has been reprinted often; it was a favourite of
959:. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947;
422:called the stories "odd and genuinely chilling."
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1087:, Vol. 45, no. 4 (Summer 1935), pp. 112–15.
914:Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children
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1570:Woolmer, J. Howard (November 1985). "The Crown
1421:Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear
990:Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear
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1425:. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p.
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1206:. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951. *
776:Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow and Other Stories
747:Treason in the Egg: A Further Police Diversion
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1368:"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"
1083:"The Novel: Assurances and Perplexities," in
800:Travellers: Thirty-one Selected Short Stories
1287:. London: Friends Book Centre, 1946. (about
1204:The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce
1124:"W. B. Yeats - Ireland's Grand Old Man," in
690:, 1945. Published in the US under the title
302:was filmed in 1947 by the Scottish director
279:Some of Strong's poems were set to music by
58:. He served as a director of the publishers
1466:(September 1929). "Breakdown (full text)".
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936:, vol. 3 No. 12 (New Series), January 1943.
2160:James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients
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1318:. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954.
1107:The Man Who Asked Questions: The Story of
1097:, No. 140, August, 1935, pp. 433–434.
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718:. London: Published for the Crime Club by
686:. London: Published for the Crime Club by
662:. London: Published for the Crime Club by
443:. New York: D. Appleton and company, 1924.
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995:"The House That Wouldn't Keep Still," in
945:"Let Me Go: A Christmas Ghost Story," in
233:, featuring Detective-Inspector McKay of
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858:. New York: The John Day Company, 1931;
289:The Body's Imperfection: Collected Poems
198:Fifty Years Of Nursing - Matron of Guy's
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1870:The third book in three weeks (others:
1789:"Discover the Darker Side of the Dales"
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1218:. New York: Liveright Pub. Corp., 1953.
1121:. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937.
1032:. London: Methuen, 1939. (one-act play)
961:Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural
722:, 1950. Also New York: MacMillan, 1952.
674:English as a foreign or second language
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1281:. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1942.
1246:. London: Methuen, 1961. (posthumous)
1151:. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1941.
1112:. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1937.
1103:. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1937.
817:, edited and with an introduction by
770:The English Captain and Other Stories
743:. London: Methuen, 1958. (posthumous)
538:. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1933.
406:The English Captain and Other Stories
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566:. London: T. Nelson & son, 1935.
556:. New York, Loring and Mussey, 1935.
2165:People educated at Brighton College
2110:20th-century English businesspeople
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1529:. New York: Paraview. p. 149.
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1091:What is Joyce Doing with the Novel?
1085:The Author, Playwright and Composer
1009:"The Buckross Ring," reprinted in:
887:"Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow," in
852:Creeps By Night: Chills and Thrills
782:Tuesday Afternoon and Other Stories
588:and Sons, Ltd., 1937. (novel about
461:. Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1928.
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1823:. New York: 695. 1 February 1930.
1163:. London: R. Ross & co., 1944.
1128:, January, 1939, pp. 438–440.
953:The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories
794:Sun on the Water and Other Stories
772:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
626:. London: Lutterworth Press, 1941.
168:Central School of Speech and Drama
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1856:. 1 November 1937. Archived from
1269:Shake Hands and Come out Fighting
1045:. New York: House of Books, 1932.
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927:The Queen's Book of the Red Cross
716:Which I Never: A Police Diversion
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170:. One of his pupils was a son of
2135:Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
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1169:. 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1944.
1116:The Minstrel Boy: A Portrait of
967:. London: Souvenir Press, 1992 (
924:"A Gift from Christy Keogh," in
796:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940.
784:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1935.
778:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1932.
656:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1942.
614:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939.
608:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937.
578:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1936.
576:The Last Enemy: A Study of Youth
544:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1933.
526:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1932.
520:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1931.
508:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929.
467:. London: Victor Gollancz, 1930.
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1066:. With Monica Redlich. Boston:
984:, December 1949. Reprinted in:
951:, December 1946. Reprinted in:
804:James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2120:20th-century English novelists
1702:. New York: 83–84. March 1931.
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1074:The Hansom Cab and The Pigeons
1051:. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1932.
764:Doyle's Rock and Other Stories
602:. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1937.
550:. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1934.
514:. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930.
260:One of his earliest writings,
216:Doyle's Rock and Other Stories
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1556:Strong, L. A. G. "Foreword."
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1228:Instructions to Young Writers
903:. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1932.
766:. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1925.
710:Darling Tom and Other Stories
455:. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1927.
449:. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1923.
437:. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1921.
189:, London, on 3 October 1958.
2170:Writers from Plymouth, Devon
1972:character, wit and humanity.
1924:"Murder Plays an Ugly Scene"
1813:"Books of Special Interest:
1787:McMillan, Ian (1 May 2009).
1401:UK public library membership
1305:. London: Published for the
1002:"The Return," reprinted in:
895:, March 1932. Reprinted in:
878:The Fireside Book of Romance
839:Short stories (anthologized)
642:. London: Published for the
483:. London: H. Hamilton, 1936.
52:Leonard Alfred George Strong
27:English novelist (1896–1958)
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2155:English publishers (people)
1612:. Movie Review Query Engine
1448:L.A.G. Strong supernatural.
1343:. London: Hutchinson, 1956.
1301:and others. Illustrated by
1167:An Informal English Grammar
459:At Glenan Cross: A Sequence
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2115:20th-century English poets
1952:C., B. (23 January 1949).
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1068:Little, Brown, and Company
802:. London: Methuen, 1945. (
698:Murder Plays an Ugly Scene
692:Murder Plays an Ugly Scene
634:J. B. Lippincott & Co.
222:in 1925. His first novel,
151:He worked as an assistant
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2175:Schoolteachers from Devon
2084:Leonard Strong Collection
1959:The Sydney Morning Herald
1635:"Fortnight South of Skye"
1132:English Literature Course
1049:Common Sense about Poetry
912:Gift Book, in aid of the
868:. With a frontispiece by
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487:The Magnolia Tree: Verses
329:Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
270:Wall Street Crash of 1929
109:(1929, set on Dartmoor).
2145:English male journalists
1872:Common Sense About Drama
1761:Guslandi, Mario (2009).
1576:Columbia Library Columns
1337:. London: Methuen, 1956.
1309:by Naldrett Press, 1951.
1224:. London: Methuen, 1953.
1200:. London, Parrish, 1949.
1101:Common Sense about Drama
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737:. London: Methuen, 1955.
731:. London: Methuen, 1953.
495:. London: Methuen, 1957.
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187:St. Martin-in-the-Fields
2047:Works by Leonard Strong
1744:"The English Captain".
1523:Seymour, Percy (2003).
1417:Haining, Peter (1997).
1285:Light Through the Cloud
1141:: The Story of a Singer
986:A Book of Modern Ghosts
889:John o' London's Weekly
758:Short story collections
618:They Went to the Island
554:Fortnight South of Skye
533:'s Land: A Tale of the
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2150:English male novelists
1895:[dust jacket]"
1497:. 2009. Archived from
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1328:London: Melrose, 1955.
1043:A Defence of Ignorance
860:And the Darkness Falls
560:Mr Sheridan's Umbrella
262:A Defence of Ignorance
84:Wadham College, Oxford
82:clergymen educated at
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32:Leonard Strong (actor)
1833:...an ample novel of
1696:"The Jealous Ghost".
1173:A Tongue in Your Head
1148:John Millington Synge
654:The Unpractised Heart
582:The Fifth of November
142:John Millington Synge
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2015:"Andrew MacKenzie -
1574:and Their Authors".
1192:The Art of the Story
1155:English for Pleasure
997:The Third Ghost Book
978:"Danse Macabre," in
741:Light above the Lake
684:Othello's Occupation
600:Laughter in the West
157:Summer Fields School
2078:Library of Congress
2017:A Gallery Of Ghosts
1901:on 16 December 2012
1763:"The Buckross Ring"
1588:Columbia University
1491:"The Buckross Ring"
981:The Strand Magazine
948:The Strand Magazine
371:Modernist attitudes
354:The Saturday Review
218:, was published by
70:Strong was born at
62:from 1938 to 1958.
30:For the actor, see
2140:British male poets
1991:. 19 February 1951
1954:"Reviews in Brief"
1860:on 25 January 2012
1334:Missions to Seamen
1222:The Writer's Trade
957:Edward Wagenknecht
910:Princess Elizabeth
882:Edward Wagenknecht
872:and a foreword by
678:Norwegian language
342:Critical reception
229:His works include
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1558:The Psychic Sense
1399:(Subscription or
1392:978-0-19-861412-8
1297:. Contributed by
975:); and elsewhere.
901:Edward J. O'Brien
827:978-1-905784-13-4
624:House in Disorder
562:. Illustrated by
512:The Jealous Ghost
441:By Haunted Stream
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