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G.B. Edwards

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G.B. Edwards


Born
in Vale, Guernsey
July 08, 1899

Died
December 29, 1976

Genre
Fiction


Gerald Basil Edwards was born in Vale Parish on the Channel Island of Guernsey and lived there until joining the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry in 1917. He attended Bristol University for several years, though he does not seem to have graduated. By the late 1920s Edwards was living in London, where he taught literature and drama at a number of institutions, including Toynbee Hall. He became acquainted with the writers J.S. Collis, Stephen Potter, and Middleton Murry, who recruited him to write for The Adelphi. All three considered Edwards a genius and expected him to become a new D.H. Lawrence. In 1928, Edwards was commissioned by Jonathan Cape to write a biography of Lawrence, with whom he briefly corresponded. Lawrence then died and the bi ...more

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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
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“If you talk to people nowadays, nothing exists unless it has been seen on TV. It gives people the idea they have seen and know everything, when really they have seen and know nothing.”
― G. B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
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“I don’t know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?” I said. “Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies.” “I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page,” he said, looking very sorry for me, “you are an anachronism.”
― G.B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
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“In the twinkling of an eye a veil is lifted; and you see with other eyes and hear with other ears and are given another understanding.”
― G.B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
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Polls

New School Classic April 2022 Group Read

Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 326 pages
 
  39 votes, 23.1%

Island by Aldous Huxley, 1962, 354 pages
 
  36 votes, 21.3%

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1902, 210 pages
 
  28 votes, 16.6%

 
  23 votes, 13.6%

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, 1975, 233 pages
 
  21 votes, 12.4%

 
  12 votes, 7.1%

 
  10 votes, 5.9%

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