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Ronald Searle (1920–2011)

Autor(a) de The Compleet Molesworth

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About the Author

Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge, England on March 3, 1920. At the age of 15, he paid for his own art school classes by working for a cartoonist at The Cambridge Daily News. In 1939 he passed a government drafting test and joined the Army as an architectural draftsman. During this time, he also mostrar mais made impressionistic watercolor sketches of fellow soldiers and cartoons poking fun at military conventions. His work was first published in the magazine Lilliput in 1941. During the war, he was captured by the Japanese and sent to Changi prison, which provided forced labor for building the Burma railway. He recorded the deplorable conditions of his camp and the fates of fellow soldiers by drawing with crude implements and scraps of paper. After he was released in 1945, his drawings were exhibited in Cambridge and were later published in 1986 as a book entitled To the Kwai - and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945. In 1948, he began writing and illustrating parodies about the students at a fictional English girls' school called St. Trinian's and publishing them in Lilliput. This led to a series of popular books, which included Hurrah for St. Trinian's, The Terror of St. Trinian's, and The St. Trinian's Story. His other books included Searle's Cats, The Square Egg, Hello - Where Did All the People Go?, The Secret Sketchbook, and More Cats. He also drew illustrations for numerous magazines and newspapers including The New Yorker, TV Guide, Le Monde, Life magazine, The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune. He died on December 30, 2011 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Ronald Searle

The Compleet Molesworth (1958) — Ilustrador — 623 exemplares
Down with Skool! (1953) — Ilustrador — 251 exemplares
How to be Topp (1954) — Ilustrador — 245 exemplares
Back in the Jug Agane (1959) — Ilustrador — 119 exemplares
The Naked Island (1952) 116 exemplares
Searle's Cats (1967) 101 exemplares
Paris! Paris! (1977) 98 exemplares
The Illustrated Winespeak (1800) 86 exemplares
The terror of St. Trinians; or, Angela's Prince Charming (1952) — Ilustrador — 70 exemplares
Dick Deadeye, (1600) 62 exemplares
The Penguin Ronald Searle (1901) 61 exemplares
Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book (1982) 53 exemplares
Back to the Slaughterhouse (1951) 50 exemplares
The Female Approach (1949) 39 exemplares
The Great Fur Opera : Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1970 (1970) — Ilustrador, algumas edições36 exemplares
Searle in the Sixties (1964) 34 exemplares
The Situation Is Hopeless (1600) 30 exemplares
The Square Egg (1615) 30 exemplares
Merry England, etc (1956) 29 exemplares
Ronald Searle (1978) 28 exemplares
More Cats (1975) 27 exemplares
Ronald Searle in Perspective (1984) 26 exemplares
Zoodiac (1977) 26 exemplares
Golden Oldies (1985) 25 exemplares
Souls in Torment (1953) 23 exemplares
Paris Sketchbook (1951) 22 exemplares
Ronald Searle's America (2016) 18 exemplares
The rake's progress (1955) 18 exemplares
The dog's ear book (1958) — Ilustrador — 11 exemplares
Which way did he go? (1962) 10 exemplares
Take One Toad (1968) 8 exemplares
Secret Sketchbook (1969) 6 exemplares
Ronald Searle in Le Monde (2002) 5 exemplares
Ronald Searle: Graphic Master (1999) 4 exemplares
The Addict: A Terrible Tale (1971) 3 exemplares
Chats, chats, chats. 2 exemplares
Entre vieilles connaissances — Ilustrador, algumas edições2 exemplares
What! Already? Searle at 90 (2010) 2 exemplares
Filles de Hambourg 1 exemplar
Paris, Paris 1 exemplar
Searle & Searle (2001) 1 exemplar
Forty Drawings 1 exemplar
40 ans de dessins (2013) 1 exemplar
Searle in America 1 exemplar
Le Monde de Ronald Searle (1998) 1 exemplar
Escape from the Amazon! (1964) 1 exemplar
Le Monde merveilleux du vin (1992) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Great Expectations (1861) — Ilustrador, algumas edições38,217 exemplares
A Christmas Carol (1843) — Ilustrador, algumas edições24,452 exemplares
Três homens num barco (já para não falar do cão) (1889) — Ilustrador, algumas edições7,628 exemplares
Cat o'Nine Tales: And Other Stories (2006) — Ilustrador, algumas edições769 exemplares
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) — Artista da capa, algumas edições618 exemplares
Whizz for Atomms (1956) — Ilustrador — 178 exemplares
The 13 Clocks & The Wonderful O (1962) — Ilustrador, algumas edições174 exemplares
The St Trinian's Story (1959) — Ilustrador — 95 exemplares
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1782) — Ilustrador, algumas edições68 exemplares
The Big City or the New Mayhew (1958) — Ilustrador — 45 exemplares
The Hatless Man: An Anthology of Odd and Forgotten Manners (1995) — Ilustrador — 36 exemplares
Slightly Foxed 4: Now we're shut in for the night (2004) — Artista da capa — 32 exemplares
Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954) — Ilustrador, algumas edições20 exemplares
Refugees 1960 (1903) — Ilustrador — 14 exemplares
The Bedside Lilliput (1950) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
London-- So Help Me! (1952) — Ilustrador, algumas edições7 exemplares

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Excellent book containing stories and sketches of people and places in 1950's London.
 
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medwyn1066 | 1 outra crítica | Nov 28, 2023 |
A hilarious send-up of winetasters' jargon, this collection of cartoons offers a satiric look at pretentious phrases used to describe wines by humorously assigning those characteristics to people.(flap)
 
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gentcat | Jan 20, 2023 |
This is a collection of 4 Molesworth books. I finished the first (Down with skool, i think). It's good... but not as great as it's reputation. Yes, funny- clever, biting and so forth but also a bit predictably and a little tired. I will pick it up again for the other books, but found that one book of Molesworth goes a pretty long way.
 
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apende | 8 outras críticas | Jul 12, 2022 |
Something of a misfire, I think. An attempt (in the mid-1970s) to adapt Gilbert & Sullivan (by Bill Melendez, an animator known for his work on Peanuts specials) by borrowing mostly from H.M.S. Pinafore and the Pirates of Penzance to tell a story from the point of view (and sympathetic to) Dick Deadeye, the villain in Pinafore. Searle's artwork is very good, but the story is decidedly underhwhelming.
 
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EricCostello | Mar 31, 2022 |

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Obras
91
Also by
17
Membros
3,579
Popularidade
#7,080
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
50
ISBN
159
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
5

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