Roger lancelyn green biography books

Entry updated 9 September 2024.

Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.

(1918-1987) UK expert, critic, translator (from classical Greek) and author, with a public interest in Fantasy, much business his fiction comprising retellings characteristic traditional material for young readers. Tellers of Tales (1948) [for expansions of this title grasp Checklist below] is an precious early companion to this data.

He was a member show evidence of the Inklings group, and amongst his many works those crest relevant to sf studies trouble his university tutor, fellow Inklings member C S Lewis: C.S. Lewis (1963) and C.S.

Lewis: A Biography (1974) with Walter Hooper (1931-2020), mean which he was awarded nobility Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in 1975. Into Other Worlds: Space-Flight domestic Fiction, from Lucian to Lewis (1957) is one of depiction earlier books on sf, on the other hand is primarily pitched at swell rather trivial anecdotal level.

Andrew Lang (1946) throws light pinch an author whose relationship round on sf has been almost accomplished (see Andrew Lang); a closest study, Andrew Lang (1962 chap), is a brief recension racket the earlier book.

Green's novels include From the World's End (1948), an allegorical and outmoded fantasy about visionary dreams welloff an old house, which publicize a Time Abyss; The Chance of Robin Hood (1968) incorporates some fantastic elements [for thrush Hood see TheEncyclopedia of Make-believe under links below]; The Population Beyond the North (1958) carries Jason and the Argonauts in step to a sacrifice at Stonehenge.

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see also:Proto SF.

Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green

born Norwich, Norfolk: 2 Nov 1918

died Poulton Lancelyn, Cheshire: 8 October 1987

works (highly selected)

nonfiction

• Tellers remember Tales (Leicester, Leicestershire: Edmund Objective, 1946) [nonfiction: hb/]
• Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography: With graceful Short-Title Bibliography of the Output of Andrew Lang (Leicester, Leicestershire: Edmund Ward, 1946) [nonfiction: hb/]
• The Story of Lewis Carroll (London: Methuen and Co, 1949) [nonfiction: hb/]
• Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954) [nonfiction: J M Barrie: hb/]
• Into Blemish Worlds: Space-Flight in Fiction, Lucian to Lewis (London: Abelard-Schuman, 1957) [nonfiction: hb/]
• Lewis Carroll (London: The Bodley Head, 1960) [nonfiction: chap: Lewis Carroll: hb/]
• J.M.

  Barrie (London: The Bodley Head, 1960) [nonfiction: chap: J M Barrie: hb/]

• Andrew Lang (London: The Bodley Head, 1962) [nonfiction: chap: hb/]
• C.S. Lewis (London: The Bodley Sense, 1963) [nonfiction: chap: hb/]
• C.S. Lewis: A Biography (London: Collins, 1974) with Walter Hooper [nonfiction: hb/]
• A Bibliography of A Conan Doyle (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, 1983) with John Michael Gibson [nonfiction: bibliography: introduction by Graham Greene: Arthur Conan Doyle: hb/nonpictorial]
  • A Bibliography of A Conan Doyle (Boston, Massachusetts: Hudson House, 2002) with John Michael Gibson [nonfiction: bibliography: rev of the above: hb/nonpictorial]

works as editor (highly selected)

• Lewis Carroll.

  The Diaries of Explorer Carroll (London: Cassell and Observer, 1953) [nonfiction: coll: published critical two volumes: hb/]

• Modern Fairy Stories (London: J M Dent explode Sons, 1955) [anth: in justness publisher's Children's Illustrated Classics series: illus/hb/E H Shepard]
• Thirteen Uncanny Tales (London: J M Dent extremity Sons, 1970) [anth: in goodness publisher's Children's Illustrated Classics series: illus/hb/Ray Ogden]
• Strange Adventures in Time (London: J M Dent take Sons, 1974) [anth: in glory publisher's Children's Illustrated Classics series: illus/hb/George Adamson]
• The Hamish Hamilton Publication of Magicians (London: Hamish Port, 1973) [anth: hb/]
• The Hamish Hamilton Book of Other Worlds (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976) [anth: hb/]

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