Nicholas Mosley

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Nicholas Mosley


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
June 25, 1923

Died
February 28, 2017


Nicholas Mosley was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. His book Hopeful Monsters won the 1990 Whitbread Award.

Mosley was the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, entitled Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale.

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Hopeful Monsters

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Hesperides Tree

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Imago Bird

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Julian Grenfell

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Inventing God

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Rules of the Game; Beyond t...

3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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Time at War

3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Catastrophe Practice

3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions
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“But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed nothing, nothing; you are just falling. My father had said once (or was it you?) that the only emotions worth having are ecstasy and despair. I thought - Well yes, but there is also a terror at this nothing.”
Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters

“What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?”
Nicholas Mosley

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...”
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