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27: 375:. After his second divorce, in 1966, he remarried his first wife. Warner and his wife Frances had three children. He had further children including a daughter Anne, who wrote about the relationship between Warner and her mother (when he was not married) in the book 'The Blind Horse of Corfu'. 237:
novel whose young hero is faced with the disintegration of his certainties about his loved ones, and with a choice between the earthy, animalistic life of his home village and the pure, efficient, emotionally detached life of an airman.
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Warner was married three times, but to only two women. His first marriage was to Frances Chamier Grove, in 1929. Their marriage ended in divorce and in 1949 Warner married Barbara, Lady Rothschild, formerly the wife of
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during the Second World War and also worked as a Latin teacher at a Grammar School in Morden as there was a shortage of teachers. From 1945 to 1947 he was in
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as Director of the British Institute. At that time he became involved in numerous translations of classical Greek and Latin authors. His translation of
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and his fiction was "profoundly influenced" by Kafka's work. Warner's first three novels all reflect his
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in 1925 and later graduated with a 3rd in English in 1928. He then spent time teaching, some of it in
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fantasy about the overthrow of a tyrannical government in a heroic revolution. His second novel,
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Today the Struggle: Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War
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as "the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced".
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as "brilliant, intelligent, continuously interesting. It has everything."
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for Penguin Classics sold over a million copies. He also translated
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Men and Women writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History
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Warner's time in Greece coincided with the early stages of the
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In 1961 Warner was appointed Tallman Professor of Classics at
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On the Greek Style: Selected Essays in Poetry and Hellenism
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Look Up at the Skies: Poems and Prose Chosen by Rex Warner
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Warner then abandoned contemporary allegory in favour of
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English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History
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English classicist, writer, and translator (1905–1986)
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Fiercer Than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner
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(1967) 549:(1950, 2nd edition 1960) (with John Morris) 1228:James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients 820: 744: 1109:The Novels of Rex Warner: An Introduction 1000:. University of Texas Press, 1969 (p.230) 71:Learn how and when to remove this message 229:left him disillusioned with Communism". 34:This article includes a list of general 1174:, with 87 library catalogue records 469: 1198:Writers from Birmingham, West Midlands 1180: 934: 932: 930: 928: 926: 924: 922: 101: 1139:"Forgotten Authors No 59: Rex Warner" 908: 906: 1103:Politics in the Novels of Rex Warner 1008: 1006: 956: 954: 952: 950: 948: 884: 882: 880: 269:, for which he was awarded the 1960 114:, England, and brought up mainly in 20: 1038:The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 919: 203:, published around the time of the 13: 1096: 903: 40:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 1259: 1121: 1003: 945: 877: 615:The Story of Fifth-Century Athens 690:History of the Peloponnesian War 365: 314:History of the Peloponnesian War 183:. Warner was a great admirer of 94:(1941). Warner was described by 25: 1218:English science fiction writers 1162:Papers Pertaining to Rex Warner 1072: 1055: 985:Oxford University Calendar 1932 779:, translated by Rex Warner and 626:Translations from Ancient Greek 271:James Tait Black Memorial Prize 161:in 1930. His first collection, 1238:20th-century English novelists 1027: 990: 978: 863: 753:(1960) Gallic & Civil Wars 617:) (1972) (with photographs by 502: 1: 1087:Authors Take Sides on Vietnam 856: 767:Translation from Modern Greek 1213:English historical novelists 1203:Writers from Gloucestershire 1117:(2002) Stephen E. Tabachnick 787: 583:(1956) with Martin HĂĽrlimann 577:(1953) with Martin HĂĽrlimann 329:"Men of Stones: A Melodrama" 7: 126:, where he associated with 10: 1264: 1243:20th-century English poets 1089:, Peter Owen, 1967,(p.47). 967:, Vintage Classics, 2007. 829:screened an adaptation of 751:War Commentaries of Caesar 707:Fall of the Roman Republic 456: 420:Men of Stones; A melodrama 870:Trash Fiction: Review of 845:as Roy, the protagonist, 808:(a selection of verse by 599:The Stories of the Greeks 383: 346:University of Connecticut 996:Katharine Bail Hoskins, 938:"Rex Warner(Obituary)". 482:Poems and Contradictions 378: 360:Wallingford, Oxfordshire 1208:Bowdoin College faculty 1069:, November 1960, p. 81. 821:Film and TV adaptations 745:Translations from Latin 414:Return of the Traveller 373:Baron Victor Rothschild 318:Poems of George Seferis 227:Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 144:. He obtained a 1st in 55:more precise citations. 1044:. London, Orbit,1994. 1040:, edited by Clute and 795:The Pilgrim's Progress 666:The Persian Expedition 587:The Greek Philosophers 529:English Public Schools 350:Authors Take Sides on 337:in their prison camp. 124:Wadham College, Oxford 108:Reginald Ernest Warner 1233:English anti-fascists 1158:at TrashFiction.co.uk 810:Gerard Manley Hopkins 619:Dimitrios Harissiadis 444:Pericles the Athenian 300:Warner served in the 146:Classical Moderations 1036:, "Warner, Rex", in 963:, "Introduction" to 841:. The cast included 833:. It was written by 679:A History of My Time 470:Collections of poems 390:The Wild Goose Chase 193:The Wild Goose Chase 175:Spanish Nationalists 1172:Library of Congress 1111:(1989) N. H. Reeve 1024:(pp. 16, 170, 201). 1016:. 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introducing
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classicist
V. S. Pritchett
Birmingham
Gloucestershire
Harpenden
Wadham College, Oxford
W. H. Auden
Cecil Day-Lewis
Stephen Spender
Oxford Poetry
Classical Moderations
Egypt
New Statesman
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Spanish Nationalists
Left Review
Franz Kafka
anti-fascist
dystopian
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Anschluss
Engelbert Dollfuss
Kurt Schuschnigg
Soviet Union

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