Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 - 27 June 1942), whose birth name was Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. In total Bramah published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs; his detective stories with Conan Doyle; his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramahs book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. He created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah was a recluse who refused to allow his public even the slightest glimpse of his private life secrecy perhaps only matched by E.W. Hornung, the creator of Raffles, and J.D. Salinger.



[Kai Lung Golden Hours | Max Carrados | The Bunch Of Violets | The Game Played In The Dark | Four Max Carrodos Detective Stories | The Ghost At Massingham Mansions | The Holloway Flat Tragedy | The Ingenious Mr Spinola | The Knight Cross Signal Problem | The Last Exploit Of Harry The Actor | The Mystery Of The Poisoned Dish Of Mushrooms | The Tragedy At Brookbend Cottage]

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