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Name: (Richard) (Horatio) Edgar Wallace
Variant Name: Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
Birth Date: April 1, 1875
Death Date: February 10, 1932
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of (Richard) (Horatio) Edgar Wallace
2,661 words, approx. 9 pages
The name Edgar Wallace too often suggests the sensational thriller, with dark deeds on darker nights, which is easily parodied or dismissed. What is overlooked is the fact that this prodigious writer was one of the most popular writers of this century....


Quotations
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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace ( 1 April , 1875 – 10 February , 1932 ) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar
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(born April 1, 1875, Greenwich, London, Eng.—died Feb. 10, 1932, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) British novelist, playwright, and journalist. He held odd jobs, served in the army, and was a reporter before producing his first success, The Four Just Men...
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Edgar Wallace Information
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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his...


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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The black bird of Edgar Allan Poe and Wallace Stevens' thirteen blackbirds.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
01/01/2003: 3,584 words, approx. 12 pages
ABSTRACT Both Poe and Stevens perceived imagination as the ultimate faculty of the human mind. The paper attempts a detailed comparison of Poe's "The Raven" and Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" as an a example of two different approaches...
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The Economist (US)
More at home abroad: English novelists. (novelists, such as Edgar Wallace, who are more popular abroad than they are in their homelands)(Brief Article)
08/23/1997: 666 words, approx. 2 pages
A CURSORY examination of the lists of bestselling fiction around the world (published regularly in The Economist's monthly Review section) invariably throws up some cross-border curiosities. For example, the way that "Sophie's World", a re-telling of the history of western philosophy (with interesting-though...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Louis J. McQuilland
2,715 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, McQuilland discusses Wallace's writing process and gives an overall assessment of his books.
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Critical Essay by Colin Watson
2,633 words, approx. 9 pages
Watson was an English journalist and novelist who was known for his detective novels. In the following essay, he speculates that the wide popularity of Wallace's novels was due to predictable plots and characters, as well as the author's refusal to question middle-class tastes and morality.
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Critical Essay by Desmond MacCarthy
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MacCarthy was one of the foremost English literary and drama critics of the twentieth century. He served for many years on the staff of the New Statesman and edited Life and Letters. A member of the Bloomsbury group, which also included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey among its number, MacCarthy was guided by their primary tenet that "one' sprime objects in life were love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience, and the pursuit o...
 


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