| The prodigal father. By: J. Storer Clouston (Original Version) Contributor(s): Clouston, J. Storer (Author) |
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ISBN: 1540376737 ISBN-13: 9781540376732 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.31 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 8" W x 10" (0.56 lbs) 120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Joseph Storer Clouston (23 May 1870, Cumberland - 23 June 1944, Orkney) was an Orcadian author and historian.J S Clouston OBE, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according to his obituary in The Scotsman. After being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. His First Offence was also filmed in France as Dr le de drame (directed by Marcel Carn , 1937). He died at home at Smoogro House, Orphir, Orkney. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was cloos'-ton, "with ou as in group." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.) |