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Alfred Duggan


Born
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
January 01, 1903

Died
January 01, 1964

Genre
Historical Fiction


"There have been few historical imaginations better informed or more gifted than Alfred Duggan’s" (The New Criterion).

Historian, archaeologist and novelist Alfred Leo Duggan wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about a wide range of subjects, in places and times as diverse as Julius Caesar’s Rome and the Medieval Europe of Thomas Becket.

Although he was born in Argentina, Duggan grew up in England, and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. After Oxford, he travelled extensively through Greece and Turkey, visiting almost all the sites later mentioned in his books. In 1935 helped excavate Constantine’s palace in Istanbul.

Duggan came to writing fiction quite late in his life: his first novel about the First Crusade, Knight in Ar ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 1,632 ratings · 199 reviews · 43 distinct works • Similar authors
Winter Quarters: The unforg...
3.55 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 1956 — 19 editions
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Family Favourites
3.80 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1960 — 18 editions
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Conscience of the King
3.97 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1951 — 21 editions
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The Little Emperors
3.85 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1953 — 22 editions
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Knight With Armour
3.72 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1959 — 13 editions
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Count Bohemond
3.85 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1965 — 22 editions
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The King of Athelney
3.78 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1961 — 7 editions
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Three's Company
3.99 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1958 — 19 editions
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Besieger of Cities
3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1963 — 12 editions
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Lord Geoffrey's Fancy
3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1962 — 26 editions
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“When I was seven, that would be in the year 458, there came the first sudden upset of my life of sudden upsets.”
― Alfred Duggan, Conscience of the King
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“Children accept the world as they find it; I took it for granted that all civilized men hid behind walls, and that the open country belonged to barbarians; but I also took it for granted that barbarians could never get inside the walls.”
― Alfred Duggan, Conscience of the King
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“What is the use of building an expensive house when it will soon be sacked?”
― Alfred Duggan, Conscience of the King
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