The Splendid Outcast (Record no. 4394)
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| fixed length control field | 01335nam a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 87060876 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780865473010 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 16703263 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR9381.9.M27 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Beryl Markham |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Splendid Outcast |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | North Point Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 139 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Written in the '40s for magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal and Collier's, these eight stories belong both to their time and to their author, the aviatrix and horse-trainer whose bestselling West with the Night detailing her 1936 solo flight east to west across the Atlantic was recently reissued. About horses, flying and romance, the early autobiographical stories in particular are vivid with details of African custom and landscape gleaned from the author's early life in Kenya. The last four stories, more obviously fictional and broadly romantic, are likely collaborative efforts of Markham with either her third husband, writer Raoul Schumacher, or her friend and fellow writer, Stuart Cloete; they are more commercial and less satisfying. That this accomplished woman wrote tales so determinedly romantic seems rather odd; yet, as Mary S. Lovell observes in helpful and clearly written introductions, such was the magazine market in those war years. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Short Stories |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | SS MARK | 61524 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |