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Eric Linklater


Born
in Penarth, South Glamorgan, Wales
March 08, 1899

Died
November 07, 1974

Genre
Fiction, Children's Fiction, Military History


Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject. ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 2,115 ratings · 231 reviews · 156 distinct works • Similar authors
The Wind on the Moon
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3.94 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 1944 — 44 editions
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Poet's Pub
3.45 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1929 — 24 editions
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The Pirates in the Deep Gre...
4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1949 — 16 editions
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Private Angelo
3.73 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1946 — 36 editions
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Magnus Merriman
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3.57 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1934 — 27 editions
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The Dark of Summer
3.81 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1956 — 18 editions
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Juan in America
3.21 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1931 — 37 editions
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Sealskin Trousers and other...
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3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1947 — 6 editions
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The Men of Ness
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1932 — 12 editions
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Juan in China
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1937 — 21 editions
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“But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.”
― Eric Linklater, Sealskin Trousers and other Stories
tags: nonentity, people, sealskin-trousers
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“There won’t be any revolution in America…The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.”
― Eric Linklater
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“...but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that.”
― Eric Linklater, Magnus Merriman
tags: eric-linklater, exciting, fiction, magnus-merriman, scottish
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