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Compton (Edward Montague) Mackenzie | | Variant Name: |
Compton Mackenzie, Compton Edward Montague Mackenzie, Edward Montague MacKenzie, Sir Compton Mackenzie | | Birth Date: |
January 17, 1883 | | Death Date: |
November 30, 1972 | | Nationality: |
British, English | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Compton (Edward Montague) Mackenzie
6,052 words, approx. 20 pages
 As an essayist Compton Mackenzie cultivated a tradition going back to Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon, of flights of introspective and descriptive writing, often autobiographical in focus, with an application to principled conduct or at least a... summary from source:
Biography of Compton (Edward Montague) Mackenzie
3,220 words, approx. 11 pages
Compton Mackenzie was one of the most prolific British authors of the twentieth century. His first book was published when he was in his mid-twenties and his last when he was nearly ninety. In fact, between 1907 and 1971 Compton Mackenzie produced at... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Compton Mackenzie Information
662 words, approx. 2 pages
 Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, (January 17, 1883, West Hartlepool, England; November 30, 1972 in Edinburgh, Scotland), was an English-born Scottish novelist and nationalist. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford where...
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 The Spectator The magnum opus of Compton Mackenzie
09/29/2007: 842 words, approx. 3 pages On Capri in 1925 Scott Fitzgerald met his 'old idol' Compton Mackenzie and found him 'cordial, attractive and pleasantly mundane. You get no sense from him that he feels his work has gone to pieces. He's not pompous about his present output. I think... summary from source:
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 The New York Observer Outtakes From a Biographer\'d5s Life
6/5/2007: 654 words, approx. 2 pages SHOOT THE WIDOW: ADVENTURES OF A BIOGRAPHER IN SEARCH OF HER SUBJECTBy Meryle SecrestAlfred A. Knopf, 242 pages, $25.95 Biography is the perfect occupation for the scholar-squirrel, assiduously storing lists of the guests at every dinner party, the word count of every...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Kenneth Young
6,580 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Young offers a biographical and critical overview of Mackenzie's life and work.
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Critical Essay by Harold Orel
5,341 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Orel evaluates the major strengths and flaws of The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett and concludes that “the incidental pleasures and the overall readability” of the novel are apparent to the reader.
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