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James Riordan (1) (1936–2012)

Autor(a) de Tales of King Arthur

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89+ Works 1,755 Membros 24 Críticas

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Obras por James Riordan

Tales of King Arthur (1982) 147 exemplares
Jason and the Golden Fleece (2003) 81 exemplares
On the Run (2009) 73 exemplares
Little Bunny Bobkin (1998) 65 exemplares
The Twelve Labours Of Hercules (1997) 64 exemplares
Russian Gypsy Tales (1986) — Tradutor — 58 exemplares
The Kingfisher Treasury of Irish Stories (1995) — Editor — 55 exemplares
Stories from the Sea (1996) 47 exemplares
Fairy Tales (1982) 42 exemplares
When the Guns Fall Silent (2000) 40 exemplares
The Sniper (2008) 39 exemplares
Sweet Clarinet (1998) 34 exemplares
Tales from the Arabian Nights (1981) 34 exemplares
The Enemy Closes In (2009) 28 exemplares
Favorite Stories of the Ballet (1984) 25 exemplares
Mergen and his Friends (1973) 22 exemplares
The Coming Of Night (1999) 20 exemplares
Rebel Cargo (2007) 19 exemplares
The Prisoner (1999) 16 exemplares
Three Magic Gifts (1980) 15 exemplares
Tales from Tartary (1978) 13 exemplares
Fairy & Folk Tales from around the World (1986) — Editor — 11 exemplares
Match of Death (2002) 11 exemplares
War Song (2001) 11 exemplares
Blood Runner (1800) 10 exemplares
A World of Folk Tales (1981) 10 exemplares
Teeny Tiny (Rigby Literacy) (2000) 9 exemplares
The Wild Swans (Golden Classics) (1987) — Adaptor — 9 exemplares
Thumbelina (1990) 8 exemplares
Stories of the Ballet (1984) 8 exemplares
Pinocchio (Oxford Illustrated Classics) (1996) — Autor — 7 exemplares
Soviet youth culture (1989) 5 exemplares
Folk tales of the British Isles (1987) 5 exemplares
The Cello (2003) 4 exemplares
Sport under Communism (1978) 4 exemplares
The secret castle (1980) 3 exemplares
Great expectations 3 exemplares
Right-Wing Revisionism Today (1976) 2 exemplares
The Gift (2004) 2 exemplares
Beauty and the beast (1979) 2 exemplares
The little puppet boy (2007) 2 exemplares
The Snowmaiden (1990) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Jamilia (1958) — Tradutor, algumas edições664 exemplares
The Scarlet Flower: A Russian Folk Tale (1976) — Tradutor, algumas edições73 exemplares
An Oxford Book of Christmas Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Short Stories (2013) — Tradutor, algumas edições1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Riordan, James William
Data de nascimento
1936-10-10
Data de falecimento
2012-02-11
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
England
Local de nascimento
Portsmouth, England, UK
Ocupações
scholar of sport
translator
children's book author

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I was electrified when i just noticed this book and immediately scooped it.

The story seemed so interesting that I couldn't sit still until i passed the book to my English teacher, who was in football business those days (never a pro himself but was through youth squads of 50-s/60-s and therefore retained many connections with the guys who actually made it into the first teams of Moscow based Soviet Premiership clubs). Of course he was an avid football fan and a staunch supporter of precisely Spartak Moscow.

His immediate reaction after reading this opus was one of the bewilderment. He never encountered any Riordan or Jordanov playing in starting XI or coming in as a sub. Moreover factual errors were of extraordinary brazen character. The man confused the venue at which the game took place: Tashkent (now in Uzbekistan) for Moscow which are 1 700 miles apart (according to Google Earth), let alone climatic and geographical differences which are still evident even to a blind man.

This and other glaring inconsistencies forced him to give a call to pro players, then active, and ask for clarifications. No one could remember such player. And to conceal such a player would be harder than to hide the proverbial needle in a haystack. Just so you know: there were few players of foreign origin (f.e. Spaniards - kids of Spanish Reds - evacuated in the wake of the Spanish Civil War to USSR) in Soviet Championship those years. And everyone remembers their presence nowadays albeit not always their names.

And no one even remembers a Briton, if you don't trust official statistics. Sorry. Nothing personal. But please don't sell a fiction for a real story.

If he was a real player it would be trumpeted all over as triumph of Communist sport's attractiveness over "sweat-extracting" professional sport of "rotting West".
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Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |
 
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Mustygusher | 1 outra crítica | Dec 19, 2022 |
Acércate a la mitología de una manera fácil y sencilla.
 
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iesmiguelservet | 1 outra crítica | Apr 3, 2022 |
An overall nice telling. Not spectacular, but altogether catches the virtue and valor of the tale.
 
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et.carole | 1 outra crítica | Jan 21, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
89
Also by
4
Membros
1,755
Popularidade
#14,659
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
24
ISBN
291
Línguas
11

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