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Nicholas Mosley (Lord Ravensdale) born 1923; Educated at Eton and Oxford; Captain in Rifle Brigade 1942-46, serving in Italy (Military Cross); twice married, five children; writer of fiction, biography, autobiography, plays, screenplays, essays, travel. There is more information on Mosley's personal history here: Beyond the Pale
FICTION:*
Spaces of the Dark, London,
Hart Davis, 1951.
The Rainbearers, London,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1955.
Corruption, London, Weidenfeld
& Nicolson 1957; Little Brown 1958.
Meeting Place, London, Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, 1962.
Accident, London, Hodder
& Stoughton, 1965; Coward McCann 1966; also Dalkey Archive Press, Normal,
Illinois
Assassins, London, Hodder
& Stoughton. 1966; Coward McCann 1967; Dalkey Archive.
Impossible Object, London,
Hodder & Stoughton, 1968; Coward McCann 1969; Dalkey Archive..
Natalie. Natalia, London,
Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Coward McCann 1971.
Catastrophe Practice (fiction,
essays, and plays), London, Secker & Warburg, 1979; Dalkey Archive
Press 1989.
Imago Bird, London, Secker
& Warburg, 1979; Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, Illinois 1989.
Serpent, London, Secker &
Warburg, 1981; also Dalkey Archive.
Judith, London, Secker &
Warburg1 1986; also Dalkey Archive
Hopeful Monsters, London,
Secker & Warburg, 1990; Dalkey Archive
Children of Darkness and Light,
Secker & Warburg 1995; also Dalkey Archive
The Hesperides Tree, Secker
& Warburg, 2001
Inventing God, Secker &
Warburg, 2003
God's Hazard, Dalkey Archive, 2009
A Garden of Trees, Dalkey Archive, 2012 (written late 1940's - early 1950's)
Metamorphosis, Dalkey Archive, 2014
BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
The Life of Raymond Raynes,
London, Faith Press, 1961
SCREENPLAYS / FILMS:
The Assassination of Trotsky,
1973. Film directed by Joseph Losey, lead Richard Burton, from N. Mosley
screenplay.
OTHER:
The Uses of Slime Mould, Essays of Four Decades, Dalkey Archive,
2004.
*Most
fiction and biography/autobiography titles are also available from Dalkey
Archive Press.
Mosley's works might readily be compared with work of the
following authors: Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, G.B. Shaw, John Cowper Powys, Somerset Maugham, Henry Green, C.E. Montague, Ford Maddox Ford, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Mann, Arthur Koestler, and J.D. Salinger.
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Julian Grenfell, his life and
the times of his death, 1888-1915; Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, London 1976; Holt, Rinehart,
Winston, New York 1976
The Assassination of Trotsky,
London, Joseph.1972.
Rules of the Game; Sir Oswald
& Ladv Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933, Vol. I, London, Secker & Warburg
1982.
Beyond the Pale; Sir Oswald &
Lady Cynthia Mosley, Volume II, London, Secker & Warburg, 1983.
Efforts at Truth (autobiography),
London, Secker & Warburg, 1994; Dalkey.Archive
Time at War (autobiography), Weidenfeld & Nicholson,
London, 2006.
Paradoxes of Peace, or The Presence of Infinity (autobiography),
Dalkey Archive, 2009.
Impossible Object, 1975.
Released as "The Story of a Love Story", directed John Frankenheimer, lead
Alan Bates.
Accident, 1967 screenplay
by Harold Pinter, director Joseph Losey, lead Dirk Bogarde.
Catastrophe Practice (fiction,
essays, and plays), London, Secker & Warburg, 1979; Dalkey Archive
Press 1989.
Experience and Religion. A Lay
Essay in Theology, United Church Press 1965.
African Switchback (travel)
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1958.
J. Banks
is not an agent for Dalkey Archive Press or any other publisher.
Recommended Readings: Those with an interest in political
history or in Mosley's personal history might begin with his two volume
biography of his parents, Rules of the Game and Beyond the
Pale. Inventing God is now the most talked about of Mosley's
novels, and it is less demanding than Hopeful Monsters; however, while I highly
recommend both books, readers who are more used to traditional fiction might first take up Accident, Children of Darkness and Light, or The Hesperides Tree. Perhaps Impossible Object is his most interesting novel.
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