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Michael Frayn Collected Columns (Methuen Humour)

by Michael Frayn

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Published by Methuen Publishing .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Humour collections & anthologies,
  • Other prose: from c 1900 -,
  • Humor,
  • General,
  • Humor / General

  • The Physical Object
    FormatPaperback
    Number of Pages500
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL10185819M
    ISBN 100413776484
    ISBN 109780413776488
    OCLC/WorldCa123113667

    Michael Frayn English playwright, novelist, journalist, philosopher, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and essayist. Many of his early columns are collected in The Day of the Dog. Michael Frayn was born in London in and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. He has written seventeen plays, including Noises Off, Copenhagen, and Democracy, translated Chekhov's last four plays, and adapted his first as Wild Honey. His screenplays include Clockwise, starring John Cleese, and among his eleven novels are The Tin Men, Towards the End of .

    Michael Frayn – English novelist, dramatist, journalist, and screenwriter. In his humorous newspaper columns, novels, and plays, Frayn satirizes human foibles and contemporary society. First edition. The first edition of this collection of essays and observations on society from Michael Frayn. His columns for The Guardian and The Observer (collected in The Day of the Dog, The Book of Fub and On the Outskirts) are models of the comic essay; in the s a number of them were adapted and performed for BBC Radio 4 by Martin Jarvis.

    Michael Frayn; Michael Frayn (primary author only) Author division. Michael Frayn is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Includes. Michael Frayn is composed of 8 names. You can .   After graduation in , Frayn worked for the Manchester Guardian, where he was a reporter from to and a columnist from to His columns of social satire for the Guardian soon became very popular and were collected into two books, The Day of the Dog () and The Book of Fub ().


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One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns sinceprincipally for the "Guardian" and "Observer", and originally came to prominence as the thrice weekly purveyor of these short, surreal, razor-sharp explorations of human foibles, sex, politics, manners, and the events of the day.

Frayn graduated from the University of Cambridge in and worked as a newspaper reporter, columnist, and critic for the Manchester Guardian and The Observer.

In the early s several collections of essays from his newspaper columns were published; his later travel writing for The Observer was collected as Travels with a Typewriter ().

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One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns sinceprincipally for the "Guardian" and "Observer". This volume brings together of his finest and funniest pieces from over the years.

Michael Frayn’s "Copenhagen" is a fictional account of an actual event during World War II, in which two physicists exchange heated words and profound ideas. One man, Werner Heisenberg, seeks to harness the power of the atom for Germany’s forces. Frayn Plays 2: Benefactors, Balmoral, Wild Honey (World Dramatists) Michael Frayn $ - $   My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn Andrew Motion is moved by Michael Frayn's gentle memoir The result is a book that feels at once genuinely delving, yet decently guarded.

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Michael Frayn Collected Columns. Michael Frayn. 30 Jun Paperback. US$ Add to basket. Spies. Michael Frayn. 20 Apr Paperback. US$ US$Michael Frayn was born in London in and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies and Skios.

His seventeen plays range from Noises Off, recently chose. Michael Frayn was born in London in and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer.

He has written seventeen plays, including Noises Off, Copenhagen, and Democracy, translated Chekhov's last four plays, and adapted his first as Wild Honey.

His screenplays include Clockwise, starring John Cleese, and among his eleven novels are The Tin Men, Towards the .