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Aubrey Menen


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
April 22, 1912

Died
February 13, 1989

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Salvator Aubrey Clarence Menen was born in 1912 in London, of Irish and Indian parents. After attending University College, London he worked as a drama critic and a stage director. When World War II broke out, he was in India, where he organized pro-Allied radio broadcasts and edited film scripts for the Indian government. After the war ended, he returned to London to work with an advertising agency's film department, but the success of his first novel, The Prevalence of Witches (1947), induced him to take up writing full-time. Aubrey Menen’s writings, often satirical, explore the nature of nationalism and the cultural contrast between his own Irish–Indian ancestry and his traditional British upbringing. Apart from his novels and non-fictio ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 360 ratings · 69 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors
The Ramayana as Told by Aub...
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3.54 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1954 — 12 editions
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The Fig Tree
3.54 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions
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The Prevalence of Witches
3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1947 — 7 editions
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Four Days of Naples
3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions
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The Space within the Heart
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A Conspiracy of Women
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Fonthill: A Comedy
3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions
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The Mystics
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions
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The Abode of Love
3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1976 — 12 editions
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“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it did not turn out quite differently.”
― Aubrey Menen
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“There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.”
― Aubrey Menen
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“His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse.”
― Aubrey Menen, A Conspiracy of Women
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