A Lost Leader (novel)

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A Lost Leader
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First US edition
Author E. Phillips Oppenheim
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Publisher Ward, Lock
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date
1906
Media typePrint

A Lost Leader is a 1906 politically-themed novel by British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. [1] [2] Later better known for his thrillers, it was one of several novels Oppenheim wrote at the time centred on "social political life". [3] In it, a potential Liberal Party politician, Lawrence Mannering, is lured back from his country estate to London to revive the party's fortunes.

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Adaptation

In 1922 it was adapted into a British silent film of the same title directed by George Ridgwell and starring Robert English, Dorothy Fane and George Bellamy. [4]

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References

  1. Server p.203
  2. Reilly p.1133
  3. Panek p.17
  4. Goble p.591

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