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Fiction Classics

Sir Pompey and Madame Juno

by (author) Martin Armstrong

read by John Lee

Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Initial publish date
Aug 2016
Category
Classics, Short Stories (single author)
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781531819149
    Publish Date
    Aug 2016
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

This new volume of tales show, that show that Martin Armstrong had no intention of abandoning the short story, and it displays, besides, a breadth of treatment and sureness of touch considerably in advance of the Bazaar and the earlier Puppet Show. Like them, it contains a selection which ranges from fantastic farce, as in Aunt Hetty, to grim realism, as in The Patrol. Some listeners say they do not like short stories. This is an audiobook which will dispel their prejudice.

Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882 - 1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories. He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He served in World War I in the British Army in France - a Private in the Artists' Rifles, he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1915 and promoted Lieutenant in 1916. He was included in the final Georgian Poetry anthology. He married in 1929 Canadian writer Jessie McDonald after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the stepfather of the young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in Conrad Aiken's Ushant.

About the authors

Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong was an English writer and poet, known for his stories. Armstrong was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge. During World War I he volunteered with the British Army and served in France as a Private in the Artists' Rifles.

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