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| Author | Compton Mackenzie |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publisher | Cassell |
Publication date | 1925 |
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Coral is a 1925 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. [1] It is a sequel to his 1912 work Carnival .
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| Author | Compton Mackenzie |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publisher | Cassell |
Publication date | 1925 |
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Coral is a 1925 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. [1] It is a sequel to his 1912 work Carnival .
Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, CBE, known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage performances. She was known for her versatility, and appeared in Shakespeare, drawing room comedy, pantomime, modern drama, and classics such as Ibsen and Chekhov. In addition to performing in Britain, Compton appeared several times in the US, and toured Australia and New Zealand in a variety of stage plays.
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, was an English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, RB Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952.
Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London, devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings. It was founded in 1923 by the Scottish author Compton Mackenzie who continued to edit the magazine until 1961. It was acquired by Haymarket in 1999. In 2013 the Mark Allen Group became the publisher.
Sinister Street is a 1913–1914 novel by Compton Mackenzie. It is a kind of bildungsroman or novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents.
Eilean Aigas (NH4641) is an island in the River Beauly, Scotland, in Kiltarlity parish in traditional Inverness-shire, now Highland Region. It is most notable for the mansion on it at its north end, which was formerly owned by the Sobieski Stuarts and rented by author and Scottish nationalist Compton Mackenzie from Lord Fraser of Lovat. It is joined to the bank by a narrow white bridge.
Andro Ian Robert Linklater was a Scottish non-fiction writer and historian.
The Monarch of the Glen is a Scottish comic farce novel written by English-born Scottish author Compton Mackenzie and published in 1941. The first in Mackenzie's Highland Novels series, it depicts the life in the fictional Scottish castle of Glenbogle. The television programme Monarch of the Glen is very loosely based on the series.
The Four Winds of Love is the overall title for a series of six novels written by Compton Mackenzie, The East Wind of Love (1937), The South Wind of Love (1938), The West Wind of Love (1940), West to North (1942), The North Wind of Love, Book 1 (1944) and The North Wind of Love, Book 2 (1945), which taken together constitute a major fictional chronicle of the first forty years of the twentieth century. The main protagonist of the hexalogy is the semi-autobiographical character of John Ogilvie.
Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, known professionally as Ellar Coltrane, is an American actor and model. They are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, for which they won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.
Guy and Pauline is a 1915 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It was begun on Capri and written in three and a half months, and remained Mackenzie's favourite of his own works. It was published in America with the alternative title of Plashers Mead.
Poor Relations is a 1919 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. In contrast to the grimmer Sylvia and Michael published the same year, the story was a light-hearted comedy about the ups-and-downs of playwright.
Buttercups and Daisies is a 1931 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.
Figure of Eight is a 1936, novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.
Rogues and Vagabonds is a 1927 historical novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It is set in the Victorian era.
Rich Relatives is a 1921 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.
Fairy Gold is a 1926 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. A Cornish knight living on an island, who has lost his son during the First World War, resents a young English soldier stationed nearby.
Vestal Fire is a 1927 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It was inspired by the time Mackenzie had spent living in Capri before the First World War.
April Fools is a 1930 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It is the sequel to his 1919 work Poor Relations.
Keep the Home Guard Turning is a 1943 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It portrays the activities of the Home Guard on a remote Scottish island during the Second World War. The characters and setting reappeared in the more famous sequel Whisky Galore in 1947.
Gaslit is an upcoming political thriller television series, based on the podcast Slow Burn that is set to premiere on Starz.