Roger Lancelyn Green’s A. E. W. Mason is an engaging biography of the remarkably varied English writer best remembered for his great adventure novel The Four Feathers.
Green follows Mason’s life as novelist, playwright, actor, politician, wartime intelligence officer and creator of Inspector Hanaud—one of the earliest important fictional detectives and a forerunner of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot.
The book is particularly worth reading today because it restores a once-celebrated author whose work helped shape modern adventure stories, detective fiction and popular cinema, while also inviting us to reconsider the ideas of courage, honour, duty and empire that dominated his age.
Written by a distinguished literary scholar and member of the Inklings circle, this is both the portrait of a fascinatingly versatile man and a valuable rediscovery of a writer whose influence has lasted longer than his name.
First published in 1952, this is a first edition. Published by Max Parrish. The book is in good condition with binding intact. The dust jacket is also in good condition.
